Word: copperizing
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...first all the worst fears of pessimists seemed justified. In the copper-belt city of Kitwe, Northern Rhodesia's largest (pop. 78,300), angry white mobs swirled through the streets, shrieking curses and obscenities. One European sent an African sprawling in the gutter, gloated, "That's the fourth one I've sorted out tonight." In a Kitwe nightclub, two Africans were quietly having dinner when a white customer walked over and punched one in the jaw. Police urged the bleeding African to press charges. "No, sir," he replied. "They've got to learn, and we must...
...away in Helena. Mont., another Liberty (or Justice, for no one seems to be quite sure) has also had her experiences. About 20 years ago she blew over on her side, and when she was stood upright again, the Montana secretary of state-an avowed enemy of Anaconda Copper-took the occasion to have her copper coating changed to aluminum. This caused quite a bit of talk for a while, until politically powerful Anaconda paid for having her tan restored...
...Congo's second largest city, where today supermarkets and the luxurious Hotel Leopold II rise from the cool, 5,000-ft.-high plateau. Nor to them does any "outsider" have any right to share in the revenues of the rich mines and plants that produce and process the copper, tin, uranium, and cobalt (60% of free world output) developed by Belgium's fat Union Minière du Haut-Katanga...
...story Continental Can Co. building; near Toronto he is building Bramalea, a $500 million "satellite city." He plans to add 500 houses to two towns he built in Minnesota for Reserve Mining Co. employees, is building a new town-Kearney, Ariz.-for employees of the Kennecott Copper Corp. He plans to put up an $18 million building for the Marine National Exchange Bank in Milwaukee. In all, Galbreath's company does some $100 million worth of business a year, and Galbreath has become one of the nation's richest real estate...
United States Steel Hour (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Red Buttons, playing a Cockney copper assigned to Malaya, unravels The Case of the Missing Wife...