Word: copper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there was nothing funny about it, according to Lampoon treasurer John Geetlet, of Newport, R.I., who retrieved the magazine's mascot, a 20-pound copper ibis, from the Russian Embassy in Manhattan this morning...
...production was almost nil, yet U.S. nickel requirements would be doubled by 1975. Last week brighter news about the U.S. nickel outlook came from Canada. Falconbridge Nickel Mines Ltd. began development of a new mine in northern Ontario on an estimated lode of 10 million tons of rich copper-nickel ore. A nine-year U.S. Government contract insures that practically all the mine's output will...
...many strategic materials, another downward pressure is the fact that the U S has already bought 78% of its scheduled $7.5 billion of stockpiles. Some metals -cobalt, chrome and nickel-are still critically scarce, and still high. But the supply of copper is now improving to the point where it looks as if the world price of 36?, which is 4? a lb. higher than the U.S. price, is more likely to drop to meet the U.S. price than vice versa...
...experience in machining tough metals to fine tolerances made it a natural to turn out such small, exact and tough parts as the thousands of tiny blades needed for every jet engine. Through a big advance in metallurgy, Thompson now makes such blades out of powdered iron and a copper alloy, eliminating a great deal of waste. It has also succeeded in casting incredibly intricate parts by pouring mercury into a die, freezing it and dipping the mercury pattern in liquid ceramic to form a mold. Then the mercury is let run out at room temperature, and parts are cast...
Metals. Phelps Dodge, the second biggest domestic copper producer, piled up the biggest sales in its history ($262.9 million), but netted 18% less ($35 million). Reynolds Metals' sales increased 9%, but net fell 7% to $14.7 million...