Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cacophony of coal, steel and railroad shutdowns, the shrill cry of alarm from users of copper has gone unheard. Yet by last week the four-month strike of copper mine, smelter, and refinery workers threatened to shut down makers of refrigerators, washing machines, radios, telephones, vacuum cleaners, etc. Copper output was down to one-third of normal, while demand was at a peacetime peak...
Both big and little business have been crippled. General Electric's Charles E. Wilson announced that virtually all his company's operations using copper will be shut down next month if the strike continues. Small companies reported production off 25-40%. Many of these companies would be forced to shut down entirely in a week...
...victims were male guinea pigs. Thirteen were penned in small cages 18 inches from the antenna of a radar transmitter. Nine were exposed to the waves direct. Others were shielded by sheet copper, which would not stop any X rays the apparatus might be emitting...
Actually, Justice charged, the industry ceased to be competitive in 1902, when Steelman Charles Schwab arranged a merger between Canadian companies with plenty of nickel ore and U.S. companies with the chemical process for separating nickel from copper. Holdings of the combine ($135,000,000 worth of mines, smelting and refining) were consolidated under Inco, Ltd. in 1928. Inco's sales last year...
...Others: blue green and apollo blue, yellow and blue grey, silver grey and dark silver grey, warm cream and copper rose, light green and grey green. All ceilings are either off-white or light cream...