Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...important gold and copper mining industries were badly hurt. Mining machinery will be needed. Mining men fear that many shafts in the mines have caved in, would be costly to reopen...
...stock, Quemont gold and copper, was selling for 30? a share on March 6. March 7 it closed at $2.98. Last week it hit $8.50. A Chinese laundryman, who bought 10,000 shares in 1942 for two cents a share and sold when the stock reached a dollar (profit: $9,800) could have bought every Chinese laundry in Toronto if he had waited a few days more...
Portrait of Clair, a sensitive, Mona Lisa-like, copper-colored girl (see cut), won the show's first prize ($300) for Boston Artist John Wilson...
...Japanese strategic metal supplies. The Japanese are wasteful and often clumsy in workmanship (e.g., apparently ignorant of the principles of stresses in metals, they weaken airplane connecting rods by making deep stencils of serial numbers in them). But the Japs have not had to be careful. They have enough copper to make their cartridge cases of brass, have been lavish in the use of nickel, zinc, manganese, aluminum and other precious alloys...
Desperately, Chile needed vigorous leadership. Nitrates and copper supported her shaky economy. Both were booming now, but both would have trouble meeting postwar competition. Chileans feared that soon after peace was declared, her mines and nitrate plants would close throughout her desert north, flooding the fertile south with hordes of unemployed...