Word: copperizing
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...example, he said that "foreigners long resident in Moscow" took the "cleaning, painting and construction" going on in Moscow as a sign that Russia was not expecting atomic bombs would soon be falling on Soviet territory. He interpreted "a steady increase in the quantity of pots and pans, copper and brass samovars" as evidence that "the Kremlin does not anticipate requiring these basic materials for war production...
Galbraith would reinforce the high taxes with indirect controls, such as those already imposed on consumer and real estate credit, as well as certain "selective" price controls on crucial materials like copper and rubber. But the "heavy artillery" of blanket price controls must by all means be held back, he said, until we have some idea of a terminal point. "Price controls become less effective the longer they remain in existence," he explained...
...James also went into politics, was mayor from 1844 to 1845, set up New York's first uniformed police force. From the officers' copper buttons came the slang term "cops...
...Copper's Pay. Bill Drury was a plainclothesman but his clothes made a mockery of the title-his suits were" about as plain as a Capone mobster's funeral, and almost as expensive. He became a lieutenant and acting captain, and quickly fell into the pattern which Chicagoans expect of their police captains-a rich man's life on a copper's pay. He made a fetish of wearing a hat and, as his hair began to disappear in later years, he even kept one on while eating in the classiest restaurants. "I'd rather...
...Harrison assured steel and copper men with whom he conferred that whatever businessmen had done to build up inventories before the order was issued was strictly their business. Said Harrison, in effect: "Any businessman who didn't do a lot of forward buying would have been neglecting the interests of his firm." Nevertheless, he added, now that the order was out, it would be vigorously enforced...