Word: copper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...industrial users only, was a reminder that the Government's stock of silver-and therefore its ability to control the price-was coming to an end. Anticipating the inevitable, dealers began bidding up silver prices. And the Treasury, with enough new "sandwich" coins (made of layers of copper and nickel) around to prevent shortages should speculators be tempted to melt old-style 90% silver coins, decided to move sooner rather than later...
Trouble has already begun. A twelve-week-old strike in the rubber industry spread last week to Goodyear, the only major company that was still untouched (though Goodrich and General Tire reached tentative agreement on a contract). At the same time, a strike hit the copper industry, affecting eight companies that account for more than 80% of the nation's output. In a small but violent dispute (at least 20 people injured), workers walked off the job at Virginia's Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co.-the first general strike at the world's largest shipyard. Meanwhile...
...this sort of arrangement that gives the most ordinary-looking reporter the Homeric breadth of vision that enables him with equal ease to write today of the copper economy of Chile and tomorrow about the prospects for the Republican Party in Mississippi...
...most troublesome enemy of Congo President Joseph Mobutu is Moise Tshombe, 47, the wily pro-Western politician who ran copper-rich Katanga as a secessionist state in the early 1960s, later served for 15 months as the Con o's Premier, and still commands wide support in the country. After Mobutu seized power in a bloodless army-backed coup 21 months ago, he forced Tshombe into permanent exile, later had him sentenced to death in absentia for high treason. Mobutu sees the hand of Tshombe in every disturbance in the Congo, is convinced that he is plotting a comeback...
...musical spectacular starring Maurice Chevalier that will open next week at Expo 67. Still addicted to the ornate fantasies of the '20s and '30s, Erté is busy developing a new kind of sculpture. It embodies shapes of birds, shells and animals in flame-colored collages of copper and aluminum...