Word: copper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...copper and cement compound to keep the floors of industrial kitchens and barns sanitary...
...Brooklyn Museum stands a splendid statuette of almost solid copper, silently questioning knowledgeable visitors. The questions: "Do I represent a hero, a king, a priest, a demon, a god, or some ancient's idea of a joke? Was I molded and cast by a Sumerian, Assyrian, Babylonian, Kassite, Hurrian, Hyksos, Elamite, or by some barbaric genius of the Caucasus? Was my native city Eridu, perhaps, or Susa. Persepolis, Nineveh, Larsa, Lagash, Umma, Ur, Alalakh, or Hattusas? Am I 5,000 years old, or closer to a mere...
...prices was balanced by an air of inflation in other commodity markets. Tension in the Far East touched off a wave of buying in tin, lead, zinc, rubber. Malayan tin rose 2¼? to 92? a lb., rubber to a new 1954-55 high of 37¼ a lb. Copper supplies were tighter than at any time since the scare-buying at the start of the Korean war. Reasons: a month-old strike at the big Northern Rhodesia mines, and rising European demand. Although copper prices steadied at 33? a lb. in the New York market. London was offering...
...Latin America should be a well-matched economic team. The U.S. needs Latin America's coffee, copper, zinc and other raw materials; Latin America needs the know-how, capital and consumer goods of the U.S. Latin America is already the second biggest foreign customer for U.S. goods (21% of all exports), while the U.S. is Latin America's No. 1 buyer (48% of its exports). Yet it is far from a happy business partnership. The reason is that the southern flow of U.S. capital is far below the level needed to raise the standard of living of Latin...
...buying of penny stocks. The boom then was founded on paper claims and hope; now the penny-stock companies are merging, or being taken over by companies with enough capital to start mining. At least 20 of the nation's biggest mining companies, e.g.. Phelps Dodge, Anaconda Copper, Climax Molybdenum and Vanadium Corp. of America, were looking over companies with promising claims. Thus out-of-town investors, who hooted at uranium stocks nine months ago, have changed their tune. Now three of every four orders come from outside the city...