Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...technician from Yale, taking a summer course in music, lived up to his fame for facile improvisation. Every time that something went wrong, the cry of "Mc Goo, fix it" went up. And he did. He manufactured a stage plug out of a piece of wood and scraps of copper wire, and he managed to rewire half the Harvard Union in an afternoon...
Kennecott Copper...
...Spurred on by a hike in steel prices (see below), Aluminum Co. of America led other major producers in raising the price of basic aluminum pig 7/10? per lb., to 24.7?. Reflecting lively European demand for copper, custom smelters hiked the price of refined copper...
...week's end shares of aluminum and copper helped lead the stock market to a new high for the year on the strength of price rises. The Dow-Jones industrial average closed the week at 505.43, highest since Aug. 1, 1957, after the market turned over 18,760,460 shares for the heaviest week of trading since last October...
...Copper, now being produced at 950,000 tons annually, has an excess capacity of about 350,000 tons; moreover, producers hold high inventories of refined copper. Government guarantees for 120,000 tons have a ceiling price of 28? per lb., which will probably act as a barrier to any major price rise...