Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...They did not. Though the building department dislikes its thin walls and invisible heating, it will be the first church in the U. S. to be fully air-conditioned, summer & winter. Instead of a steeple it will have pillars of light-formed by interweaving floodlights from a copper crown on the roof...
...fight between Copper King Fritz Heinze and Standard Oil's John D. Ryan for the Butte, Mont. copper properties was finally settled by a $500,000 toss of a coin...
Under the microscope, blood from a victim of malaria is as vivid as a southern sunset. In mild malaria, the red blood cells appear speckled with pink. In violent forms of the disease, the corpuscles darken to dusky copper, mottled with purple. These changing hues show the progress of the fight between invading malarial parasites and the body's defending blood cells...
President Cárdenas had several reasons for changing his mind. In the folds of Mexico's hills lie great deposits of antimony, manganese, mercury, tungsten, fluor spar, molybdenum. But big producers have never worked them, have concentrated on gold, silver, zinc, copper. The other metals have been left to the Indians, who grub them out of the ground, trot down to the market centres with a pat of tungsten, a tin of mercury whenever they need money for tortillas or pulque. The sales to Japan helped prime small native industry...
...priorities board. Administrator was Donald Marr Nelson, the Defense Commission's (formerly Sears, Roebuck's) purchasing agent. Chairman was Commissioner Knudsen, its member commissioners Stettinius, Henderson. Purpose of the board was to work out a priorities system. In some industries-notably among the more defenseless customers of copper- priorities were already needed to determine who gets what. And besides, if logjammed suppliers are told they must make defense deliveries first, stall off their old (and often more profitable) private customers, this may encourage some of the plant expansion the U. S. sorely needs...