Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Such occurrences as that which happened at the Anaconda copper mines (TIME, Nov. 23) seem to indicate that America is not yet old enough to become a world power when certain groups would discriminate against a group of Americans as loyal as the Negro...
...tons of copper consumed last year in making the one-cent piece," the announcement continues, "would have met the combined requirements of copper for building 2 cruisers, 2 destroyers, 1245 flying fortresses, 120 field guns and 120 howitzers...
...anti-lightning device. The device is a "clothesline" of steel wire strung between two poles. Its importance is that inflammable buildings, like munitions plants, arsenals or oil depots, can now be protected with 60 lb. of steel wire instead of 250 lb. of lightning rods made of critical copper...
...present the salvage men have hungry eyes turned on the two large bronze rhinoceros in front of the Biology labs, Mom Hall's fancy trappings, and the shiny copper doors to the swimming pool. They will be satisfied, nevertheless, with the fences around the clubs, any old pianos in the College and sundry asseried junk...
This week the Anaconda copper mines were still open, though not operating at full capacity for want of labor. The Negroes were still in Butte, but all above ground. The C.I.O., the Army and the Administration were sputtering. Anaconda, for once no one's whipping boy, could say with Daniel M. Kelly, mine manager: "We're just on the sidelines in all this show." Said Mr. Byrne of Local No. 1: "We're going on the theory that this is still a democracy...