Word: copper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Barely a week later, Italian finance police picked up a California-born Italian citizen named Walter Rava in a small cafe in Milan. He was arrested for forging an Italian government import certificate for 5,000 tons of Chilean copper. Rava was part of a gang, headed by the Rumanian commercial attache in Bern, Switzerland, which specialized in getting control of strategic materials sent to Europe, supposedly destined for Western European businessmen. Once the goods arrived, they were smuggled behind the Iron Curtain...
...provincial dining room by New Jersey Designer Lester Byock and his wife, who have an interesting idea for walls: plain pine panels washed with thin yellow varnish, then overlaid with a white rococo design. Most interesting feature: a white brick fireplace with a conical hood under which sits a copper brazier that can be used to cook an informal roast or light a formal dinner. ¶ A warm and woolly Explorer's Study by William Pahlmann, which combines the comforts of a modern Manhattan flat with the old wood stove of a backwoods cabin. Among the features: a wall...
...attention to this awesome sylvan roadblock. They had a more important problem-picking a name for their dream city. Neither wasted a moment considering any local Indian words. Massachusetts-born Asa Lovejoy insistently cried: "Boston!" Maine-born Francis Pettygrove stubbornly cried: "Portland!" Finally they tossed a big, old-fashioned copper one-cent piece. Petty-grove and Portland...
...years as Southern Rhodesia's Prime Minister, he badgered London for a federation of the three colonies. Northern Rhodesia, rich in copper, needed Southern Rhodesia's coal; both colonies needed Nyasaland's ample supply of African labor. "A black front is advancing from the Gold Coast, a white front [Boer South Africa] is moving from the south," he explained. He believed that the federation would save Central Africa from becoming "the clashing point of those two fronts...
...bull market really ended quite a while ago as far as the majority of stocks is concerned." He pointed out that gold stocks as a group have never topped their peak of November 1949. The soft drink and brewing group reached its high in January 1950; a year later, copper stocks, retail stores and steels reached theirs. Two years ago the ethical drug stocks reached their top, followed within a few months by such groups as agricultural machinery, mining and smelting, distillers, lead and zinc, and textiles. Thus, all these turndowns had come long before the 30 Dow-Jones industrials...