Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pakistan would begin its career with no cotton mills, jute mills, iron or steel works,† copper or iron mines. Jinnah hoped to compensate for this weakness with foreign support, might keep Pakistan a British dominion even if Hindu India declared complete independence...
...MAIL" . . . QUOTES PREMIER DREW AS SAYING: "i DID ATTEND A RECEPTION AT THE SAVOY WHICH WAS ARRANGED BY A GROUP OF CANADIANS IN LONDON. . . . THE ENTIRE EXPENSE OF THIS AFFAIR WAS BORNE BY THIS GROUP OF CANADIANS AND IT DIDN'T COST ME OR THE ONTARIO GOVERNMENT ONE COPPER...
...figure of a priest, or ruler, presiding over a circle of deities (see cut). To make it, the Mayan artist had labored with wooden bow drills, and smoothed his work down with abrasive sand. Carnegie Institution diggers found the breastplate and an assortment of gold-leaf ornaments, copper bells "and one alabaster vase amid the rotted bones in an ever-deepening series of graves...
...inflation reached the stage where even the weight of the lowly copper has been inflated? Or maybe you included the fog, coal smoke and dust, dirt and other elements that are present in the New York air, when you weighed your pennies [TIME, May 19]. Here in the Great State of Texas . . . pennies weigh only 138 to the pound; i.e., 70 pounds have a value of only...
Died. William A. Morgan, 75, Buffalo financier (no kin of the late J.P.), who virtually cornered the world copper market during World War I; after long illness; in Buffalo...