Word: coppered
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...French machines, textiles and fertilizers might move southward again, in exchange for Spanish pyrites, copper and citrus fruit. Reflected the Gaullist France Libre: "Let's never play Don Quixote again. . . . By this silly closing of the frontier, we have lost an important market. . . . Others, more realistically minded than we, have taken our place. . . . Now we will have to reconquer the place we once held in Spain's foreign trade...
...stopped for lack of fuel, many a newspaper on the U.S. West Coast would soon be out of paper. Canada supplies 80% of U.S. newsprint consumption, and much of it could be sold elsewhere at higher prices in the present world famine. The same is true of minerals (especially copper, zinc and lead...
...flowered in December, thanks to the mildest winter of the century, cattle and sheep were grazing hoof-deep in verdant pastureland while farmers sent their plows deep into soft, moist earth. "Now that the sun is reaching again into the dark corners of the valley," sighed a pensive, copper-haired peasant woman of Anticoli last week, "we have no fear...
...trip from Salta to Antofagasta. That would wait until next week, when, on the 27th anniversary of its first construction, the new Trans-Andean railway would be officially inaugurated. At the ceremony, no one would cheer louder than the desert miners of northern Chile, who want to swap their copper and nitrates for Argentina's grain, vegetables and beef...
...Mountain is more pleasant than most. The dormitory (called the "Monastery") is pleasant too. For day-sleeping astronomers, the bedrooms have soundproofed walls and doors and black window shades. The only intruders in this astronomical Eden are the woodpeckers that like to drill away at the Monastery's copper roof...