Word: copper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...worried forecasts of a copper shortage began appearing soon after 37,000 workers went on strike in mid-July at companies producing 90% of the nation's domestic supply. Just before Labor Day, no less an authority than Commerce Secretary Alexander Trowbridge gloomily predicted that it would be only "three to five weeks until we reach rock bottom of our supply." As the walkout dragged through its 14th week, the shortage remained as elusive as a settlement...
...list of U.S. companies being struck last week read like a what's what of business. Such basic industries as steel, chemicals and copper were affected by work stoppages. So were farming and farm machinery, bricklaying, metalworking, bronze refining, shipbuilding, office-machine and computer production, and even toys and teaching. The Ford Motor Co. was shut down and its new-car production halted by a walkout of 161,000 employees. At one end of the television industry, 1,450 employees struck the Fort Wayne...
...Governor Raymond P. Shafer last week asked the governors of eight other steel-producing states to join him in negotiating an end to the walkout. And in Utah, where the economy is off by $30 million so far because of a twelve-week strike against the Kennecott Copper Co., Governor Calvin L. Rampton summoned labor, management and TV cameramen to the state capitol for a well-publicized effort to get negotiations moving again...
...first to try was the German zoologist Johann Friedrich Blumenbach in 1775. On the basis of physical characteristics, he saw five human subspecies or races-a term possibly deriving from the Arabic rds (beginning). Blumenbach divided humans into races that he called Caucasian (white), Mongolian (yellow), Ethiopian (black), American (copper) and Malay (brown...
...rode into battle against the Turks (he won). In August 1944, during the Warsaw uprising against the Nazis, the entire church and its adjacent convent were leveled by bombs and artillery shells, burying 35 nuns, four priests, and 4,000 civilian rebels under the wreckage. Today, newly roofed with copper that sparkles in the sun's autumn rays, the church is at last receiving its final coat of paint...