Word: copperizing
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Aluminum, one of the lightest and most malleable of metals, traditionally has been a cyclical business. But today its producers, almost alone among metal manufacturers, are exulting over prosperous stability. Makers of steel, zinc, nickel and copper are ailing because of surging costs and rising cheap imports, but the aluminum industry cannot keep up with demand...
...resorted to more questionable tactics. Though he had initially opposed a bill introduced by Herman Talmadge to pay farmers $2.3 billion for acreage taken out of production, the Administration reversed itself last week and supported the measure. Since last summer, DeConcini had been vainly urging the Administration to buy copper for Government stockpiles and thus relieve unemployment in the Arizona mines. Earlier this month, Mondale approached DeConcini on the matter. Said the Vice President: "We may be able to put something together." The week before the Senate vote, the White House offered to buy 225,000 tons of copper, less...
...here, mixed up everything he had left, and dumped it haphazardly." BAM will eventually carry a marvelously mixed bag of these riches: petroleum from major new oilfields in Western Siberia, coal from Neryungri and Chulman, iron ore and gold from Aldan, diamonds from Yakutia, and salt, asbestos, molybdenum, copper, tin and bauxite from various areas. Shipped to Japan and other resource-hungry nations, such exports will help Moscow earn the foreign currency it needs to pay for technological development...
...craft's appeal to the tyro lies partly in the fact that it need not be expensive. Basic equipment, in addition to the glass, can be bought for less than $50. It includes: a glass cutter, a breaker (for splitting the glass), a grozier (to grind off errors), copper foil or lead (to hold the pieces together), a lathekin (a wooden tool) to flatten the foil on the glass, a soldering iron, a lubricant (usually kerosene) to make the cutter run smoothly on the glass, a flux (a solution to make the solder adhere to the foil or lead...
...over the five years following ratification, plus $50 million in military aid over ten years. This income, says Pedro Rognoni, president of Panama's Industrial Association, "will not solve the economic problem-that will be solved only by production." There are many possibilities for development. The Cerro Colorado copper deposit, near...