Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chinese also look for great coal resources. Copper, critically deficient in the interior, is in Sinkiang; so are iron, molybdenum and other ores. Sinkiang's succulent fruits and melons are a byword in Asia. Its superb cotton, its magnificent horses are all of matchless quality. But peasant immigration must be limited to water resources-three or four millions is probably the maximum total of agricultural pioneers...
Barbara Hazel Guggenheim McKinley, plump 40-year-old heiress to many of the Guggenheim copper millions, was wedded, in Denver, for the third time-this time to a former body-builder and dance enthusiast, 28-year-old Corporal Larry Leonard. He signed a contract rejecting in advance any share in her wealth. The bride said her eleven and nine-year-old son and daughter "wrote him a letter and asked him to marry...
...metal, silver started as a substitute for tin, copper and other critical metals, was soon found superior to them in many ways. Silver has many ideal properties: it resists corrosion better than any other metal, is little affected by atmospheric conditions, is extremely malleable, and is an excellent conductor of heat and electricity. Some of its uses...
...bars (electricity conductors), replacing copper. Aluminum and magnesium plants have borrowed tons of silver from the Treasury for this job, must return every ounce in five years...
...brazing alloy (with copper and zinc) to connect joints: it is workable at relatively low temperatures which do not injure the metals joined...