Word: copperizing
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...Only a single railroad, 394 miles long, and a highway connect the north and south of the protectorate. East-west roads branch off this central spine, but typically peter out into sand within 40 or 50 miles. A few mining companies are probing Bechuanaland's deposits of manganese, copper, silver and gold, but it will be years before they pay off-if they ever...
...high incomes, school reform to upgrade Chile's lagging primary and secondary schools. He wants to deflate the government's ballooning bureaucracy and amend the constitution to protect workers' rights to join unions. His most controversial proposal is the "Chileanization" of the country's copper industry; the government would acquire 51% interest in the U.S.'s Braden Copper Co. and a 25% interest in two new U.S. ventures in return for an $80 million payment and a promise of stable taxes. Frei claims that the scheme would double Chilean copper exports to $1.2 billion...
...attack Frei's program chiefly because of its proposals for higher taxes, a state bank and land reform. The three moderately leftist parties resent Frei's plans because he has stolen their social-reform thunder. On the extreme fringes, the Communists and Socialists denounce everything, particularly the copper plan, which they rail at as a mere ruse to allow foreigners to exploit Chile's riches...
...Boston, the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities has rummaged through the crumbling brick of a house by Early American Architect Charles Bulfinch to retrieve choice examples of historic woodwork. A well-known Boston psychiatrist cases demolition sites on Sundays, is now the proud possessor of seven copper finials designed by architects ranging from H. H. Richardson to Anonymous...
...didn't bargain with them." Months ago, Karp and friends showed up to protest, then recently to haggle as crowbar and sledge hammer sliced into Fifth Avenue's elegant Brokaw mansion, a late 19th century simulacrum of France's Chenonceaux chateau. Karp offered to buy two copper finials perched atop the roof, was told by the wreckers that removing them with care was too dangerous and would slow up the job of razing the building. Said the sympathetic foreman, "Sure it's a shame, but something should have been done about it before...