Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lake bed in some remote period. Later it must have been thickly inhabited. A great wind that rages through the valley has blown the soil away, uncovering town sites, cemeteries and heaps of pottery fragments which now lie exposed on the desert. There the expedition found tools of copper, but there was no evidence that any people had lived in the valley since prehistoric times...
...biggest producer of raw materials. As much as 70% of the world supply of molybdenum (used to harden steel for cutting tools) has come from a single mine at Climax, Colo.; the U.S. produces 90% of the world's high-grade sulphur, is the largest producer of copper, exports more cotton than any other country. But in other materials, notably metals like tungsten and cobalt, the U.S. is a comparatively big user and small producer...
...World % of 1950 1950 % of Production Production total consumed Commodity (in tons) in U.S. in the U.S. Copper . . . . . . . . . 2,741,776 41% 50% Lead . . . . . . . . . . . 1,700,000 34 51 Zinc . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,010,048 45 50 Manganese . . . . . 3,375,000 5 50 Tungsten . . . . . . . 8,816 22 35 Cobalt . . . . . . . . . . 6,500 14 63 Nickel . . . . . . . . . . 170,000 ½ 50 Molybdenum . . . . 15,680 90 83 Wool . . . . . . . . . . . 4,000,000 (lbs.) 3 16 Cotton . . . . . . . . . . 31,400,000 (bales) 52 29 Natural Rubber...
...went over to Kanorado and hired himself a preacher, the Rev. S. H. Mahaffey of the Full Gospel Church. Then he plunked down part of his savings for a $3,600 solid copper casket. When the word got around, some folks didn't think it right that Jim should have a funeral when he wasn't even dead. The singers Jim had engaged suddenly backed out and the school board wouldn't let him have the Community Center auditorium. But the publisher of the town's paper was on Old Jim's side. "Some church...
...market. Such items as Haspel summer suits opened at $32.50, started sliding a few dollars at a time, closed at $19.24 at week's end. James Jones's bestselling From Here to Eternity fell from $4.50 to $1.94; Waterman fountain pens were cut from $3.95 to $2.09; copper pans from $1.39 to 45?; 5-h.p. outboard motors from $203.95 to $157.00; Palm Beach suits from...