Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dignified, Roosevelt-jawed Victor Alexander John Hope, 54, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow, strolled among the splashing fountains of his colossal, copper-domed viceregal palace. A mighty and beglamored figure, Britain's deputy over 352,000,000 Indians, he reviewed Indian troops of the New Delhi area, conferred with his Executive Council, talked with his private secretary Sir Gilbert Laithwaite, fed worms to his pet turtle, Jonah, whom Mohandas Gandhi once asked especially to see. Like the rest of India's millions, the Viceroy was waiting in the heat, waiting while the Japanese won Java and Rangoon, waiting...
Etchings, printed from copper plates in which a design, drawn by the artist, has been dug out by the corrosive action of nitric acid. He starts by giving his copper plate a coat of beeswax, scratching his design in the soft wax with a needle. Copper, exposed where the wax has been scratched away, is then eaten away by acid. Parts still covered with beeswax remain uneaten. When the acid bath is over, remaining wax is rubbed off and plate is ready for printing. In Drypoints, which look like etchings to the uninitiated, the artist scratches his design right...
Panagra started about 1928, when Pan Am was first nosing into South America. On the east coast Pan Am had no U.S. competition. But in the west Pan Am ran smack into Grace, which has toted Chilean nitrates, Colombian coffee, Peruvian copper and Panama hats in its green, white & black funneled ships for decades, considers that part of South America a state of Grace. Grace was thinking about an airline to complement its shipping business. So Pan Am and Grace made a deal-each anted up $500,000, agreed to own and operate Panagra, 50-50. Panagra started flying...
...that jewelry makers are denied all use of tin, copper, aluminum, chrome, nickel and iridium, these pieces of raffia, felt, wood, clay and glass are the latest thing-and almost the only thing left-in costume ("junk") jewelry. Whoop-dedoo of the spring season are pieces like a pair of red felt lips clutching a pink felt rose...
...Great deposits of copper in Alaska...