Word: coppered
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...dignified, Roosevelt-jawed Victor Alexander John Hope, 54, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow, strolled among the splashing fountains of his colossal, copper-domed viceregal palace. A mighty and beglamored figure, Britain's deputy over 352,000,000 Indians, he reviewed Indian troops of the New Delhi area, conferred with his Executive Council, talked with his private secretary Sir Gilbert Laithwaite, fed worms to his pet turtle, Jonah, whom Mohandas Gandhi once asked especially to see. Like the rest of India's millions, the Viceroy was waiting in the heat, waiting while the Japanese won Java and Rangoon, waiting...
Etchings, printed from copper plates in which a design, drawn by the artist, has been dug out by the corrosive action of nitric acid. He starts by giving his copper plate a coat of beeswax, scratching his design in the soft wax with a needle. Copper, exposed where the wax has been scratched away, is then eaten away by acid. Parts still covered with beeswax remain uneaten. When the acid bath is over, remaining wax is rubbed off and plate is ready for printing. In Drypoints, which look like etchings to the uninitiated, the artist scratches his design right...
...Great deposits of copper in Alaska...
...Many a humble-priced ore, now of great strategic importance, has never been thoroughly prospected in the U.S. Ickes wants the Bureau of Mines and the Geological Survey to explore for more copper, iron, zinc, chromite and lead. His experts know of promising copper sites in eight States, lead in seven, zinc in twelve, chromite in four, and Alaska iron...
...Republic Steel is already using New York State iron; and Anaconda Copper and Vanadium Corp. are mining Montana chromite...