Word: copper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Warren K. Copper of Somerville was selected to represent Dudley on the Committee. He has served as a house basketball coach, and a freshman advisor, and has participated in house and freshman athetics...
Scholars disagree on whether the island of Cyprus (in Greek, Kupros) took its name from the Greek word for copper, or whether it was just the other way around. For 30 centuries before the birth of Christ, much of the copper known to the Mediterranean world came from Cyprus, where clumps of almost pure metal once lay loose on the ground. Agamemnon was said to have sailed for Troy carrying a brand-new sword of Cyprian copper. The weapon Alexander the Great brandished against his enemies was the gift of a Cypriot king...
Roman know-how, spreading to Cyprus in 58 B.C., managed to squeeze a rich payload out of Cyprian ore bodies for at least four centuries more, leaving behind slag heaps of exhausted ore that are still standing today. Then, for close to 1,500 years, the world forgot the copper that made Cyprus famous...
...southwestern U.S. and the Mexican desert, discouraged by his failure and waiting impatiently for a primping girl friend to meet him at the library, Geologist Charles Godfrey Gunther idly thumbed his way through an old volume of ancient history. His eye fell on a chapter concerning ancient Cyprus and copper. Months later, with the backing of Colonel Seeley Mudd and Philip Wiseman, Gunther began the long and finally successful search for new copper on Cyprus. Twenty years of U.S. perseverance, frugality and hardship passed before the Cyprus Mines Corp. paid its first dividends...
Uncertain Future. Today the copper mines developed by Gunther, and still largely controlled by the American Mudd family of Los Angeles, have become Cyprus' largest industry, supporting some 2,000 of its inhabitants and providing more than 25% of the island's entire annual revenue. Cyprus Mines Corp. exports nearly 1,000,000 tons of copper a year, runs an up-to-date, 65-bed hospital for its employees, has built scores of low-cost houses for them to live in, helps to run schools, sports clubs, welfare centers and summer camps for their families, and pays...