Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bustling copper-mining town high up on Michigan's northern "thumb," the year 1891 was a bad one for school-teaching. Three principals in a row were harried out of town by the unruly students. The clerk of Adams township asked for somebody who could use his two hands as well as the three Rs. He got a stocky, lyo-lb. college boxer named Frederick Albert Jeffers...
Last week Fred Jeffers, now grey, bespectacled and 76, was still keeping order in Adams township-as superintendent of schools. The principal of the high school in copper-mining Painesdale (pop. 1,270) is his wife, Cora Doolittle, 74. They have been married and fellow teachers for 51 years...
...boom began last August, when Dr. Peter Paul Zinn, 52, a onetime doctor for copper-mining Phelps Dodge Corp., came over from Bisbee and started a medical center featuring inhalations of chlorine...
...underground factory was a product of the war. When the Germans came to Podmokly (which they called Bodenbach) they seized the Krizek Works, Czechoslovakia's largest producer of copper wire, the area was rich in coal and hydroelectric power, and had excellent communication facilities. Later they imported French, Belgian and Russian laborers, and set them to work expanding the Krizek plants. Laboratories were built, buildings enlarged, new units erected. One of the new units was put underground, and was supersecret. It was known simply as "the Weser...
Possessed of a budding paunch and a brand new engineering diploma, young Braden set to work in his father's Chilean copper mine. He was 21 when he saw 19-year-old Maria Humeres del Solar in the box of a Santiago theater. By managing to marry her six months later he set something of a record in overcoming the restrictive protocol of Latin courtship, and the lack of a common language. (Both now speak excellent Spanish and English.) Two of Braden's handiest assets in Latin America have been his greying senora's charm and judgment...