Word: copper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Theater for a visit in 1959. "Gentlemen, make your petitions," said Culture Chief Chugonov jovially. "We will try to satisfy them." Meanwhile, in Paris, the ambassadors of the two countries got together and agreed, subject to President Carlos Ibañez approval, to sell 20,000 tons of Chilean copper wire to Russia...
...Across town, amid the mangoes, palms and cassia trees of the European quarter, far fewer white citizens were similarly lined up. Belgian gradualism was making another cautious move forward, permitting the first elections-for either whites or blacks-to be held in Belgium's fabulously rich (cobalt, uranium, copper, gold) and only colony...
...COPPER CUTBACKS are planned by Kennecott Copper Corp., No. 1 U.S. producer, to boost prices that have slumped to 27?Ib. from 54¼ last year. Kennecott will trim domestic output 12%, or 3,800 tons a month, by slowing operations in Utah, New Mexico, Nevada. Move follows 3,500 tons a month cutback by Phelps Dodge Corp., 3,000 tons a month by Anaconda...
Spree in Paris. Peggy Guggenheim, member of the wealthy copper clan, had a conventional Manhattan upbringing before she married into the lost generation. With her dilettante first husband Author Laurence Vail, she gave some of Paris' wildest parties, posed for Photographer Man Ray in a cloth-of-gold, fringed sheath, balancing a foot-long cigarette holder. Her yen for art and artists did not come until after her divorce, when she started her own London gallery, soon decided to found her own museum of modern art. At the outbreak of World War II, she took the proposed museum...
...sons of a German Jewish cigar merchant, Ernest Oppenheimer at his death was undisputed boss of the cartel that controls 95% of the world's diamond production, and he controlled more than 90 other companies worth an estimated $2.5 billion. His empire included coal, uranium, copper and some of the world's largest gold mines. Financially, he was the most powerful man in all Africa...