Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...state, but he won the election by two to one. In Congress, he plumped for an import tax on copper, fought against Boulder Dam because he thought it discriminated against Arizona water interests. He won his reputation as a determined foe of Government spending. A nominal Democrat, he often hurdled party lines to vote with the G.O.P., tangled violently with tough old Speaker Jack Garner...
Rawhide Jim put Lew to work as a mucker in the mines at Jerome, where he started learning copper the hard way. It was a rough life. Rawhide Jim was still the stern, domineering, iron-willed parent. (He had gone to France for the Red Cross during the war, became such an ardent Francophile that when he came home, he carried his own sack of French croissants whenever he went into a restaurant.) He kept a tight rein on Lew. Peggy hated the life. When a Prescott newsman suggested that Lew run for the state legislature, both Lew and Peggy...
...impossible. It begins in Ireland atop a large rocky lump of earth (see title) which a greedy capitalist named Brodrick is determined to excavate. A member of the lower classes prophesies that "woe" and "the end of everything green and beautiful" will betide if the hill is mined for copper. For three generations (roughly 90 minutes), flunkeys announce woe more often than dinner ("There's terrible trouble at the mines!"). The trouble causes the death of three Brodricks in two generations, drives the heroine (Margaret Lockwood) to heroin. Moviegoers have an easier...
...Parliamentary immunity spared the party's five Senators and 15 Deputies. But at El Siglo, the Communist newspaper in Santiago, even the linotypers were arrested. At Lota, 300 miners' leaders were held for court-martial. When Communist unions pulled reprisal strikes in the great nitrate fields and copper mines, the Army grabbed another...
Just before dawn one morning after that, Mrs. George Kronshein, night supervisor at Brooklyn's Harbor Hospital, telephoned the police. She said that a drunken copper had barged into the nurses' home, mauled her, and then staggered noisily into a women's ward. A patrol car arrived and took the cop away...