Word: coppered
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...victims were male guinea pigs. Thirteen were penned in small cages 18 inches from the antenna of a radar transmitter. Nine were exposed to the waves direct. Others were shielded by sheet copper, which would not stop any X rays the apparatus might be emitting...
Actually, Justice charged, the industry ceased to be competitive in 1902, when Steelman Charles Schwab arranged a merger between Canadian companies with plenty of nickel ore and U.S. companies with the chemical process for separating nickel from copper. Holdings of the combine ($135,000,000 worth of mines, smelting and refining) were consolidated under Inco, Ltd. in 1928. Inco's sales last year...
...Others: blue green and apollo blue, yellow and blue grey, silver grey and dark silver grey, warm cream and copper rose, light green and grey green. All ceilings are either off-white or light cream...
...Cunico (copper, nickel, cobalt) and cunife (copper, nickel, iron), used for magnetic screws to effect extremely fine adjustments in small motors, gyroscopes and aircraft instruments...
Manitoba had long known there was a solution: diversification of the province's industries. In 1912 provincial boundaries were redrawn and Manitoba, which had been known as the "Postage Stamp Province," unrolled 500 miles northward to Hudson Bay. Adventurers and prospectors had already discovered copper and gold, trapped beaver, muskrat and wild mink...