Word: copper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rolled Sheet. The first pre-packaged rolls of sheet metal for do-it-yourself householders were put on sale by Illinois Zinc Co. Made of a nonrusting zinc and copper alloy, the sheet metal can be used for roof and gutter repairs, etc. Price: $1 for a 12-by 30-in. roll...
...Lyon lit the fuse himself. A craggy-faced individualist, he sat down before the Senate Interior Committee determined to tell the unvarnished truth. He had worked for the Anaconda Copper Mining Co. and its subsidiaries for 34 years. The Truman Administration had brought him to Washington in late 1951 as minerals chief in the Defense Materials Procurement Agency. Lyon added that he draws a $5,000-a-year pension from Anaconda and that the pension is revocable at the will of the company. At that bit of information, Senators' eyebrows shot up. Washington's Democratic Senator Henry...
...father owned and operated the best hotel and saloon in Butte, Mont., and Leslie Bechtel grew up there. "I think I could play poker before I could read or write." Bechtel went to school with copper miners' children who were sent down into the pits when they were 14. Growing up, he decided to be a lawyer and do something about such social injustice...
...Ambassador to Portugal, succeeding Careerman Cavendish Cannon: Colonel M. (for Meyer) Robert Guggenheim, 68, head of the copper-rich Guggenheim clan. A heavy contributor to the Eisenhower campaign, Bob Guggenheim is a noted Washington partygiver whose invitations are valued for the lavishness of the entertainment. His Rock Creek Park mansion has its own organ, swimming pool and bowling alley. A reserve colonel, he rose from private to major in World War I, was kept out of No. II by a heart murmur. He likes to sport the ribbons of the Silver Star and the Purple Heart in the lapel...
Denim's revolution is a product of the two-day weekend, the trek to the suburbs, and the increasing informality and casualness of U.S. living. Schoolboys started it, in the 19305, with a penchant for the copper-riveted "levis" which San Francisco's famed Levi Strauss began making for gold miners and cowhands back in 1850 (TIME, Feb. 27, 1950). High school girls quickly copied the craze. Spare-time yachtsmen found that salt water gave the deep blue levis a faded look, which became so fashionable that youngsters dumped bleach into the family wash to fade their...