Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cobalt Comeback. One of the first towns to revive was Ontario's Cobalt. Its fabulous story began in 1903 when Fred La Rose, a railway worker, picked up a piece of ore in an isolated rail cut. He thought it was copper; on assay it showed a phenomenal 13,000 oz. of silver to the ton. Prospectors poured in, and made one jewelry-store strike after another. In four years, 44 mines were opened. By 1916 Cobalt mines had produced 300,000,000 oz. of silver. By 1922 the richest veins had petered out and the price...
...Imperial's sleepless rooms are a tight symposium of cubes and hexagons, an epidemic of shallow drawers, a rash of unpainted knobs, an aurora of burnished copper. The bed (in the room I occupied) was a grass-fed sarcophagus. . . . The capacious copper wash basin made me feel that I was usurping the rights of the turnips at a steam-table lunch counter, and the light was directed at such an angle that I could shave myself successfully only between the shoulder blades...
Last week the Daily Post, along with the rest of the Anaconda Copper Mining Co.'s big newspaper chain, wound up a booming campaign for Burt Wheeler's renomination in Montana's Democratic primary. But it was not enough. Burt Wheeler was soundly beaten (49,401 to 43,729). His defeat, like his conversion to the "copper collar," was the measure of the disrepute into which fractious Burt Wheeler had fallen...
Better than Vienna, G.I.s liked Salzburg with its mossy stone and patinaed copper. The Red Cross had moved into the Mirabell Casino, and G.I.s listened to symphony concerts in the Mirabell Castle's gardens.* Then, oblivious to the echoes of Mozart's minuets, they jitterbugged in the old, staid Hotel Pitter, which had suddenly acquired something known as the Sky Haven Garden...
Other metals were already up. Platinum prices doubled. Zinc went up 1¼? to 9½? a pound. Copper, tied in with OPA subsidies, waited on Washington developments. But the best guess was that low-cost copper producers would continue to sell at the OPA ceiling of 14⅜? a pound. High-cost producers would probably boost their price...