Word: copperizing
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...across the U.S. contains 1,198 pages. Some phantasmagoric novel! Only a fictional pressagent's verbal weapons could describe it: "Marguerite Young's new novel is so big that if its air conditioning is turned off, clouds form inside. Its electrical system contains 11,425 miles of copper wire. None of it connected. The cement that went into its construction could build Grand Coulee Dam, with enough left over to fill a wash tub into which might be placed the feet of the Scribner's editor who okayed it for publication...
...result, the Government, which sells coins to banks at their face value, will soon be minting unheard-of profits. With the new copper-nickel alloy coins authorized by the bill, the cost of turning out a dime will drop from 9.5? to .6? quarters, from 23.6? to 1.5? and half dollars, from 47.3? to 26.5?. Revenues from coin manufacture will leap from some $100 million in 1965 to $1 billion...
Also symbolic are the four colors of Zambia's flag: green is for agriculture, orange for copper, red for the blood spilled in the struggle for freedom, and black for the people. "And what holds it up?" asks a cynical European. "A white flagpole." Such remarks are typical of many of Zambia's 77,000 whites, on whom the country depends to keep its copper mines humming and its commerce thriving. Some still resent a black government in a land so long under white rule. Kaunda shrugs off the attitude. Far from wanting to drive the whites...
Zambia imports more than 60% of its consumer goods from Rhodesia and South Africa, could not run its copper smelters without Rhodesian coal and can ship its vital copper exports to the sea only via a Rhodesian-operated railroad to ports in South Africa and Portuguese Mozambique...
...threat of economic strangulation has forced Kaunda to seek another outlet for his copper. Last month he met with Tanzania's President Julius Nyerere to talk over long-simmering plans for a 1,000-mile rail line eastward to Dar es Salaam. The railway would cost a staggering $200 million or so, but Nyerere seems as interested in pushing it through as is Kaunda. It would turn Dar es Salaam into East Africa's busiest port, open up a massive, uninhabited southern region that is known to contain valuable coal deposits. Besides, Nyerere would like to break...