Word: copperizing
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...Cantabridgians who have puzzled over Mem Hall's wartime nudity can now rest assured that the situation is only temporary. University work crews will soon start reconstruction work which eventually should place slate, copper, and ironwork decorations back in their old positions atop the tower...
...festive fireworks rather than lethal gunfire. Food parcels were distributed to the poor as the people prepared for a great selamatan (feast). Forgetting for once their mutual distrust, the city's rival Dutch and Indonesian mayors joined forces on the Palace balcony to scatter 1,000 kilograms of copper coins over the jubilant throngs below...
...Meat. The west coast countries reaped a fat profit from such wartime exports as copper, tin and nitrates, but when war ended they well knew that they would have to find trade items to replace the war babies. The Chileans had big plans for ending their dependence on copper and nitrates by industrialization. But building fisheries, power plants, and developing transportation is a long-term process, and it will cost more than Chileans can find. Like their Pacific neighbors, they need help from abroad. The question is, where will it come from...
...Middle. Leftists screamed. Rightist landowners replied that the alternative was to let Communists, who had already grievously hurt the Chilean economy by endless strikes in coal, copper and nitrates, take over the whole business of agricultural production. Gonzalez and his Radicals, who favored genuine, non-political unions, were caught in the cross fire...
...hundredweight, almost double the price of five months ago. Many another commodity edged up enough to shove Dun & Bradstreet's weekly index of wholesale food prices to a record high. Some metals rose too. Lead went up 1? to a new high of 14? a lb.; copper worth only 14 3/8? under OPA ceiling rose to 21? a Ib. Silver, which had sagged to 70? a Ib. in February, now somersaulted...