Word: copper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ready for the intimate construction. Materials are abundant. For example, Adams C-entry currently sports a sign which reads. "For sale Cheap; 15 ft. 3/8" copper tubing; two kettles, with covers; several packages of Brewer's Yeast; 12 lbs, sugar...
...last four days, it has become obvious that Thresky's repeated public appearances have been engineered by some calculating conspiratorial group. It is absurd to maintain that a copper bird could have arranged a series of audiences with notables, or eluded pursuers unaided, Ever since what now appears to have been a wilful theft, his captors have consistently made a spectacle of the revered mascot--to what purpose, save to embarrass and distress its owners, it is hard to imagine...
Autry invited the copper cloud king to Hollywood to rest awhile after his first flying attempt, in 30 years, but Thresky demurred on the grounds of pressing social engagements today...
...Consumer-goods makers will take an overall cut from their present 58% of 1950 peak production to about 50%. They will get an estimated 11½% less steel, 28% less copper, 17% less aluminum. Though some products might not be cut at all (e.g., electric light bulbs), less essential items, such as aluminum window-blinds, may be trimmed to 15% of their peak production. ¶ Automakers will be allotted enough steel, copper and aluminum to turn out 930,000 cars in the first three months, v. 1,605,611 in 1951'S first quarter. But if they can boost...
Major purchases of stocks during the year included: J.I. Case, Seaboard Air Line Railway, Eastern Gas and Fuel, B.F. Goodrich, and Colgate-Palmolive-Peet. Largest individual holdings were in Standard Oil, General Electric, Christina Securities, International Paper, Insurance Company of North America, General Motors, Illinois Powers, and Kennecoit Copper...