Word: copper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ordinary one-inch copper pipe, says Professor Harold Barlow of University College in London, can be tricked into carrying 1) a heavy load of power, 2) 2,000 telephone messages, and 3) 20 distinct television programs-and all at the same time...
...about the action of true chlorophyll in the human body, and most of the technical literature on the subject is full of myths. Anyhow, the material used by manufacturers of green pills, chewing gum, toothpaste and mouthwash is not natural chlorophyll: it has been altered chemically and sometimes contains copper. Much of it is labeled "copper chlorophyllin," and even this is a misnomer, said Corwin, because a "phyllin" is a magnesium derivative; when copper replaces the magnesium, it's something else again...
...Although he is little known to politicians and public, Humphrey is one of the country's liveliest (and quietest) industrialists. As head of the M. A. Hanna Co. of Cleveland, Ohio, he presides over a vast business and industrial empire which includes important interests in iron, steel, coal, copper, oil, natural gas, rayon, plastics, shipping and banking. The company was named for Mark Alonzo Hanna, Ohio's great Republican political power, who owned and ran it until he died in 1904. Humphrey resigned from his father's law firm to become general counsel for the Hanna...
...family held 17%. For this, the British government paid $5,000,000 in its own bonds at Amerada's then market price. The same shares were worth $100 million at this year's peak price, and Britain recently began selling them in the U.S. (Phelps Dodge Corp., copper producers, bought $19 million worth, thus got a 3% interest in Amerada...
Hadley was a real person, a southern veteran of the Civil War who went to prison in 1867 for aiding guerilla raiders to escape capture. Hadley, played by Sterling Hayden, served time in Hellgate Military Prison near Copper City, New Mexico. The Hellgate of the movies, called America's Devil's Island, includes a subterranean series of barred caves, a tender hearted commandant, a sadistic sergeant, and enough tortures to send chills along the spine of Charles Addams...