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Like the hard-pressed copper fabricators (see below), U.S. steelmakers have seldom been so hard put to supply the nation. Americans are using steel at the alltime record annual rate of 1,350 Ibs. per capita, and demand is mounting steadily for consumer goods and a host of new steel products, e.g., stainless steel sheathing for buildings. Last week in Cleveland, Republic Steel Corp. announced plans for a $130 million plant expansion program that will boost its capacity 16% to 11.8 million tons a year within 20 months. Said Republic's President Charles M. White. 64, who succeeded tough...
...nation's copper industry last week was caught in the tightest squeeze of its history. Warning that inventories were depleted "almost to the vanishing point," three leading trade groups hammered on Washington's doors asking for a personal meeting with the President. They wanted him to release 100,000 tons of stockpiled Chilean copper, summon a special session of Congress, if necessary...
...talk about what is closest to her heart-the glorious career of Marjorie Morningstar-she goes to the West gos brownstone flat of her dearest friend, a' fat, good-natured girl with intellectual pretensions named Marsha Zelenko. Marsha lives with her parents in an apartment decorated with Mexican copper plates, Chinese screens and African masks. Papa Zelenko strums the balalaika: Mama Zelenko pounds out Bach on the piano. After Margie scores a hit in a Hunter College production of The Mikado, Marsha gets her a job as dramatic coach at a children's camp in the Adirondacks. Across...
...time matching competitions, the powerful chiefs evolved a special blue chip: a sheet of copper valued at hundreds or even thousands of blankets. In one fiercely contested potlatch, the tribal chiefs ganged up to best an upstart brave who had grown rich trading with the whites. It took three coppers with a total value of 39,000 blankets to finally "flatten" the brave...
From Swords to Aircraft. Most of all, Charles Tiffany wanted a reputation for quality. To guarantee it, he opened his own factory. Most silversmiths of the day adulterated their wares with copper alloys, but Tiffany's guaranteed that all its silver was .925 pure, thus introduced into the U.S. the hallmark, "sterling silver." Not only did the Tiffany factory turn out lustrous table silver and gold filigree, but in the Civil War it made swords and rifles; in World War I it turned out surgical instruments, and in World War II aircraft parts...