Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cunico (copper, nickel, cobalt) and cunife (copper, nickel, iron), used for magnetic screws to effect extremely fine adjustments in small motors, gyroscopes and aircraft instruments...
Manitoba had long known there was a solution: diversification of the province's industries. In 1912 provincial boundaries were redrawn and Manitoba, which had been known as the "Postage Stamp Province," unrolled 500 miles northward to Hudson Bay. Adventurers and prospectors had already discovered copper and gold, trapped beaver, muskrat and wild mink...
...gold" (iron Pyrites) which gives a surface appearance of precious metal. Yet there was indeed a fortune in the district. It took some 18 years of exploration and drilling-and investment of more than $3,600,000-to find it. Subsequently it produced 25 million tons of copper, gold and silver...
...unique. A favorite form of "strike" is to occupy the plant, continue work, and make the management lose face by increasing production. Strikers at a Mitsui-owned coal mine barred all management personnel from the pits and stepped daily output up from 250 tons to 620. Workers at Ashio copper mines operated during a "strike," increased production, and doubled their own wages...
...Throw brass aside for a while, & try copper. . . . After you have tried copper, then we will try brass again. ... If we succeed, brass stamps will never be used any more in the Christian world"; "Look into that Bierstadt Artotype business, & see what figure a body can buy into at"; "I wish to God I could get a good pen. I'll be damned if I think any are made." . . . "Dear Charley-Look here, have the Am. Pub. Co. swindled me out of only $2,000? I thought it was five"; "I have this idea: to paint the white marble...