Word: copper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...back still more by the Office of Defense Mobilization, thus slowing the rapid pace of defense-industry expansion. ODM has ended 19 categories of fast write-offs (asbestos, lead, tungsten, etc.) as no longer essential, indefinitely suspended 38 others (commercial aircraft, iron ore, etc.) leaving only 20 (copper, aluminum, atomic energy, etc.) of the original 225 expansion goals still in effect. New cutbacks will either cancel or postpone some 900 applications from U.S. business for $9.3 billion worth of fast write-offs...
...indeed a sad commentary on the future of federal buildings if their design is to be dictated by the Washington lobbies of building-materials trades. Imagine the final structure-a composite of Indiana limestone, California redwood, Vermont marble, Montana copper, Oregon Douglas fir and Rhode Island brick. Add one flight of New Hampshire granite steps so that the whole may be recognized as "monumental...
...years the copper-hued tsurigane (hanging bell) of Tokyo's Nishi-arai Dai-shi Temple rang out over the city, its tone as rich as a mighty organ. When the temple survived the Tokyo earthquake of 1923, a superstition arose that the tsurigane was imperishable. Then, on an autumn day in 1943, a drab-colored Japanese army truck carted the half-ton tsurigane away to be melted down, with thousands of other Buddhist temple bells, into war scrap. The bell disappeared from sight, but its memory lingered...
Invoking the 1954 Communist Control Act for the first time, Attorney General Brownell last week charged before the Subversive Activities Control Board that the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers is dominated by Communists. If the charge sticks, the Red-tainted union-now on strike in the copper industry-will lose its rights under the Labor-Management Relations Act. The Government hopes that the members will throw out their Red bosses...
...when one of its invading conquerors decided to make it a place of splendor. The Mongol Emperor Kublai, grandson of Genghis Khan, ordered the building of Green Mount, a hill that was dotted with evergreens brought from far and wide by imperial elephants, paved with a layer of green copper ore and topped by a green pavilion. Marco Polo reported in wonderment: "The great Khan caused all this to be made for the comfort of his spirit...