Word: copper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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UNION battle for control of Montana's two big copper locals has ended after three months of bitter campaigning. Workers voted overwhelmingly (4,099 to 2,185) to stay in the Communist-dominated International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, instead of switching over to the C.I.O.'s United Steelworkers' union...
Another reason for boosting stockpiles is that the Administration is being forced to buy up more stocks of copper, lead, zinc, tin, magnesium, tungsten and other metals than it had planned. While the fighting was on in Korea, the Truman Administration encouraged expansion of domestic mineral and metal products beyond normal needs by guaranteeing a market for much of the extra output. The guarantees served their purpose. But when demand slacked off and prices fell, the Administration had to buy up the surplus. It either had to raise stockpile limits or dump excess metals on a shaky market...
...Randall Report, the Milton Eisenhower Report on Latin America and the Capehart Report on defense production all recommended increased stockpiling as a sound way of bolstering wobbly foreign economies. Last week the Administration gave one neighbor a lift by agreeing to buy up 100,000 tons of Chilean copper...
...bevatron,* was slowly coming to life last week. Housed in a circular building 75 feet high is a steel doughnut 135 feet in diameter and weighing 10,000 tons. This is the world's greatest magnet, energized by current flowing through 26.5 miles of copper cable two inches thick. When its current was first turned on, a crashing clatter shook the bevatron building as iron objects on the floor rearranged themselves violently to fit the invisible pattern of its magnetic field...
Expose. In Pamplona, Spain, magistrates at the city courthouse learned that 14 copper lightning rods, installed to safeguard the court during the perennial thunderstorms, had been sold on the black market in 1952 and secretly replaced by painted wooden poles...