Word: copper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mining. Phelps Dodge, No. 2 domestic copper producer (after Kennecott), came put 11% ahead of its 1952 marks, both in sales and in earnings of $39 million. Freeport Sulphur piled up the highest sales, $38 million, and profits, $8.5 million, in its history...
Even so, Jukebox Favorite Eartha Kitt breaks through the film barrier at a disturbing velocity. This copper-colored daughter of a North Carolina cotton farmer, who quit the Katherine Dunham troupe to try for the big money, is neatly made, has a cobra-cold allure, sings well in both French and English, and dances with the unerring grace of a cat. More to the point, she makes the spectator feel like an iron filing when the magnet passes...
...desertlike copper-and-cattle country of east-central Nevada, Shell Oil last week struck oil, the first well in the state. Thus, after years of search and 75 dry holes, Nevada was on its way to becoming the 29th oil-producing state. In a four-hour production test, Shell's Eagle Springs No. 1 gave up only 30 bbls. of commercial-grade oil. But geologists talked enthusiastically of a big pool down below, and there was an oil rush on in the state...
...strike had been called at Wankie colliery, a forest-girt slum that taps Southern Rhodesia's massive coal reserves -more than 4 billion tons, mined in a 40-ft. seam. Owned by Sir Ernest Oppenheimer, whose vast copper mines in Northern Rhodesia are fueled by Southern Rhodesian coal, Wankie pays white miners at least $250 a month and its Negro miners an average in cash of $6.60 a month. Recently, the Negro union demanded a raise in their minimum rate (from 21? to 50?? a day), and when it made no headway, downed tools. Only...
...coal from Wankie meant crisis for all Rhodesia. The copper mines had nine days' supply, railroads and power stations only enough for a week. Southern Rhodesia's newly elected Prime Minister Garfield Todd acted drastically. Six hundred white soldiers raced to Wankie. ¶ With one eye on Kenya's Mau Mau, many white Rhodesians were quick to cry "Native rising." Jasper Savanhu, a Negro M.P., accused the government of "using ruthless methods, including starvation and intimidation, to break the Negro strike." Attacked from both sides, Garfield Todd kept his head, and by so doing, saved many others...