Word: coppered
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...skyrocketing cost of iron ore, copper, fibers, foodstuffs and other non-oil commodities contributed more than anything else to the devastating double-digit inflation of 1973-74. Commodity prices plummeted during the recent world recession, but now they are bouncing up again more rapidly than had been generally anticipated. Emile van Lennep, secretary-general of the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, warns in cautious economist's jargon that "the surprisingly early recovery of some commodity prices could presage a new outbreak of speculative price rises and pose a serious threat to the sustainability of the present...
...abandoned to the winds and vandals for more than two decades, then reopened in May as a national park. There have been no repairs. The paint is peeling from the walls. A stone wall shows a gaping wound where thieves smashed through to steal the copper piping. The grimy corridors echo the shuffling footsteps of today's slightly awed visitors passing through on the five-times-a-day guided tour...
...wooden reservoir of 10 by 60 by 140 feet holding 628,000 gallons. The rest was invested in the key part of Colics' scheme: a steam engine. Although there are a number of these devices in Europe, only one was ever shipped to America, to pump out a copper mine in New Jersey, and it was destroyed by fire in 1773. Colles decided, however, to build one of his own, and the 18-inch cylinder was cast in New York last year. (Said the New York Gazetteer: "The first performance of the kind ever attempted in America and allowed...
...plants with Latin names-Bartram brings to his work keen powers of observation as well as a poetic, almost rhapsodic sensibility. When he sees a wild turkey, for example, he writes that it is "a stately beautiful bird, of a very dark dusky brown colour ... edged with a copper colour, which in a certain exposure looked like burnished gold, and he seemed not insensible of the splendid appearance he made...
...cover the political show trial of 13 whites, including two Americans, charged with mercenary activities. But officials in the capital concede that resistance continues in the oil-rich northern enclave in Cabinda and in the populous Central Highlands primarily along the Benguela railroad, which is still closed to copper exports from neighboring Zambia and Zaïre. Griggs' report...