Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grimy Gothic Cathedral of Learning went Dr. Gilbert D. McCann last week, there to bait his traps for thunderbolts and thus officially open the 1943 lightning season. Other claptraps (more than 200) were set out along power lines, on forest watchtowers, atop radio masts and the tall stacks of copper smelters-wherever lightning is likely to strike twice...
Biggest bolt ever recorded: a flaring snapper which hit the 585-ft. smelter stack of the Anaconda Copper Mining Co. at Butte, Mont., in the summer of 1941. Its current totaled more than 160,000 amperes; its estimated pressure exceeded 15,000,000 volts. (Ordinary home circuit: 110 volts...
Said Chief of Staff General Antenor Ichazo: "The decree, in my opinion, will serve to revolutionize our economy." What this probably meant was that troops or mobilized civilians can be set to mining tin, tungsten, lead, copper, antimony, harvesting rubber, producing quinine, building roads. Labor for these enterprises has been scarce, and it has sometimes been both obstreperous and ill-treated. Mobilization presumably will not be a boon to Bolivian labor, but it may well increase production of Bolivian war material...
...tell how many we are, but we're a company of farmers, clerks, salesmen, miners (coal and copper), truck drivers, laborers and mechanics. . . . We're volunteers, draftees, and old army men from...
Incidentally, we were not so moved when Butte copper miners refused to work beside Negroes. We fight beside them over here, and it's a sad day for the people of the United States when they ask the Negro to fight for them abroad and then refuse to let him work at home...