Word: coppering
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Strength Without Strains. More commonly, continued surpluses reflect national economies that are gaining strength without strains. Copper-rich Zambia's regular surpluses have enabled the government to improve roads, education and health facilities. The oil-producing Arab states of Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi and Qatar amassed hefty surpluses as usual in 1967, despite some losses from the Mideast war. Instead of squandering the money on palaces, limousines and concubines, the rulers of the four Persian Gulf states today split the oil-based riches between imported consumer goods (food, clothing, shelter) for their populace, new facilities such as water...
...just as steady. He pushed industrial and natural-resource development programs that are now raising the country's gross national product by 9% a year; he also made Australia a major world supplier of iron ore, bauxite and alumina, as well as stepping up production of the copper, lead, zinc and coal that it has long produced. By the early 1970s, the government expects to be exporting $1 billion worth of minerals alone (v. $430 million last year...
About the only thing certain in the copper states of Arizona, Nevada, Montana and Utah is that this is going to be a bleak winter. The strike has already cost more than $20 million in workers' wages. Many families are subsisting on strike benefits of from $10 to $30 a week or on welfare payments from the states or from the Mormon Church. Menus in the workers' homes have turned to bread and potatoes, stretched out with deer shot during the October hunting season. Businessmen who depend on miners are hurting too. G. R. Harmon, a grocer...
Many union families have begun to suspect that their leaders are more interested in changing the bargaining system than in achieving wage increases. "A lot of us wives," said one worried woman in the copper town of Tears...
...husbands into trouble with the union." A veteran Draper, Utah miner calls it the "most senseless strike in the world. It's a tug of war for power. And what are they gaining? Nothing." Not surprisingly, when the Salt Lake Tribune polled 696 copper workers on their feelings, 70% favored returning to work while negotiations continued...