Word: copper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...four humming power plants generating 200,000 kw. of electric-power capacity. The valley's desert was turning green with crops; plumes of smoke from new plants rose in the air. With 80% of India's coal, 98% of its iron ore, and all of its copper ore, the Damodar Valley was beginning to boom...
Teacher of Righteousness and Jesus Christ (TIME, April 2), scroll snobs reminded one another that Allegro, though his surmises seemed wild, had been one of the few to study the copper scrolls when they were opened (by coating them with plastic and slitting them into strips). Perhaps, they whispered, his high-wire speculations would prove to be sound after...
Last week the secret of the copper scrolls came out. Their subject, announced the French, British and U.S. scholars who have been working on them in the Jordanian section of Jerusalem, was not spiritual at all. They were clues to buried treasure-and on a Fort Knox scale. Two hundred tons of gold and silver-were mentioned as well as a considerable cache of incense in about 60 separate hoards scattered over a 50-mile-long area from Hebron to Mount Gerizim, near Nablus...
...copper rolls were originally one sheet, rolled up in a hurry or by unskilled hands which broke it at a joint into two rolls. The directions read more like the works of Captain Kidd than the Dead Sea Scrolls' Teacher of Righteousness: "In the cistern which is below the rampart, on the east side, in a place hollowed out of rock; 600 bars of silver . . . Close by, below the southern corner of the portico at Zadok's tomb, and underneath the pilaster in the exedras, a vessel of incense in pine wood and a vessel of incense...
...COPPER PRICES, on the skids for ten weeks, are poised for still another tumble. After sliding from last March's record high of 55.5? a Ib. to 40? a Ib. last week, prices of custom smelters are still weak as customers refuse to buy, live off inventories. With copper futures on London market currently at 36.4? a Ib., commodity men say U.S. producer prices will have to come down...