Word: copper
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some ways Medford seems like a throwback to a 1940s movie. The path leading up to the public library is lined with rosebushes. Ask the young waitresses at the Copper Kettle if they can put up a pair of box lunches for a fishing trip, and the reply is a cheerful, "Sure can!" Cars seem miraculously well preserved. There is almost no snow in the valleys of southern Oregon. No snow, no rock salt to eat away fenders and underbodies...
...with this select company. Scholars and amateurs alike have been fascinated by both the perfection of the preservation and the skill of the statues' creators, as reflected in such details as the whorls of a beard, the braids of a headband, the shiny, silver-plated teeth and the copper lips, eyelashes and nipples...
...shale are only part of the Mountain West's buried wealth. Ninety-one percent of the nation's uranium lies in the Mountain West, with New Mexico and Utah supplying most of the region's ore. From Arizona comes more than half of all the copper dug in the U.S. each year; the Kennecott Copper Corp.'s Bingham Canyon open-pit mine in Utah, at two miles wide and a half-mile deep, the largest excavation in the world, alone has produced copper-over 11 million tons-than any other mine in history. The Climax mine...
...shaking up Bendix, which last year ranked 88th on the Fortune 500 list with sales of $3.8 billion and profits of $163 million. Last week he put up for sale the company's $435 million timber operations as well as $300 million of stock in Asarco, which mines copper and other metals. He wants Bendix to concentrate more on high technology and electronics and less on natural resources...
...ones you occasionally see in the Square, big cartoons of strong men smashing the state. Pennants carried the One Big Union legend; there were no lapel pins, no sterling silver. Even the leaders were just old organizers; Haywood had learned how to blow up mines during the Colorado copper strikes of the 19th century, Mother Jones was a legend everyplace men went underground, trusting their lives to rotting timbers. In the Pacific Northwest, where the IWW enrolled almost every lumberjack, Wobblie Iry Hansen says, "The lumber companies were all so worried about those little people that were out organizing. They...