Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harry Truman, George Marshall, Louis Bromfield, Fiorello LaGuardia, Ginger Rogers are not "beautifully" penned, they at least have in common mental maturity, individualism, the desire and the capacity for absorbing new ideas, more-than-average flexibility. Thus their scripts differ from those of our contemporaries who may write a "copper plate" hand which contains the same elements as the writing they were taught at school 20 years and more ago. This subconscious clinging to the penmanship carefully learned in school so long ago is often an indication of lack of originality, inflexibility, lack of self-confidence-in short, a standstill...
...Austin McVeigh, who had made one of the famed gold strikes at Red Lake, Ont. kept mighty quiet about the discovery he made afterwards. Ranging the muskeg around Lynn Lake in 1941, he caught sight of a likely looking outcropping. The samples he took had traces of nickel and copper. Prospector McVeigh took back his boss, Eldon L. Brown, president of Sherritt Gordon Mines, to prospect further. Their magnetometer, which detects ore bodies magnetically, indicated a huge body of ore below the muskeg...
...Breath. From the Gulf and from Canada, warm and icy air rushed together to form the whirling center of a new storm. Over Abilene, Tex. the clouds turned copper with dust, while a steely blue frost wandered across the Little Big Horn. As the languid, wet air swirled above the cold, it began to generate wind, sleet, thunder and lightning. One bolt killed a woman in Wever, Iowa in the midst of a driving blizzard. At Whittemore, 230 miles away, a bridal couple was unhappily snowbound in a house with 50 wedding guests...
They were the U.S. oil industry, the lumber industry; the coal interests, the copper interests; the tobacco growers, the potato growers; the manufacturers of jewelry, and of fishing tackle. None of them had a complete understanding of all the ramifications of the problems they discussed. But most of them were certain that their industries faced ruin if the U.S. continued to lower its tariff walls...
...context of emerging Communist strength in Latin America. In Chile, the Communists, thanks to their balance of power in Congress, had helped to elect President Gabriel Gonzalez Videla. President Videla rewarded them with three Cabinet posts, two of which clinched their control of Chile's vital nitrate, copper and coal unions, and of agriculture...