Word: copper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Controls. Wage and price controls, already withering, may virtually end even before the Republicans take office, although the Controls Act does not expire until April. The Controlled Materials Plan (for steel, copper and other materials), scheduled to die in June, may end sooner. However, some form of materials allocation for military production may be necessary. Republicans have said that they will rely more on indirect (e.g., fiscal and credit) controls to fight inflation, if that threatens again, in which case Congress would have to restore to the Federal Reserve Board its powers over consumer credit, which were wiped out last...
...came within two votes of returning as Prime Minister in World War II, served instead as Navy Minister, then as a member of the War Advisory Council, where he recaptured some of his old voice. Said he to a delegation of war manufacturers who complained of the shortage of copper wire: "What do you want me to do about it? Spin it out of my tail like a spider?" He saw his New Guinea policy vindicated, and lived on to witness the collapse of world relations more threatening than that following Versailles...
Feeling no pangs at the end of his snack, the Prince was given his birthday award-80 copper plaques reserving a permanent place for him in each of Paris' top restaurants. It was little enough, as one admiring gourmet said, for one who has dedicated "a heroic stomach to the service of the French cuisine...
...Carnegie Hall. The Danes were more relaxed and easygoing (and a bit less precise) than most top U.S. orchestras. They bowed their strings lightly, making bright, pure threads of sound. The brasses were not particularly powerful, but they sounded as mellow as if the instruments were made of soft copper. The horns-prone in any orchestra to skid off their notes-were as secure as a pipe organ...
...face. It then began to crawl off the rug. The nurse, without taking her eyes off the book, said "Naughty." The baby, with one hand in the air, paused. Its attitude was that of Colleoni's majestic charger in Venice or George Ill's famous "copper horse" at Windsor, and it seemed to enjoy cutting a dash. When it had crawled another two quick steps, it ended in the same grand pose. The nurse made ready to turn a page and again cried "Naughty" with keenest indignation. She turned the page. Her eyes and sharp little nose were...