Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trimmed Ritz-Carlton Hotel, placard-bearing pickets from some 20 labor unions staged an indignant demonstration one morning last week. "The workers protest," one sign proclaimed. "After Murdochville, Kruppville" warned another, in an obvious attempt to keep the United Steelworkers' strike at the Murdochville works of the Gaspe Copper Mines Ltd. in the public eye. In one of the Ritz-Carlton's handsomely appointed suites, German Industrialist Alfried Felix Alwyn Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, 50 (TIME, Aug. 12), shrugged off the demonstration: "In Germany we have good relations with trade unions." Then newsmen gathered for a press...
...Snitching. But Gordon also reported that "the big majority are brave and dedicated and underpaid," 'and the Press announced that his rookie's take-home pay of $1,740.16 would go to the police pension fund. Promised Gordon: "Six months didn't make me a veteran copper. But I've been one long enough to know I'm not going to snitch on any of them. I'm going to cross up dates and places whenever true identities might hurt somebody. I'm going to tell all the story...
Confident that better days are coming, Allied Chemical, & Dye Corp. and Kennecott Copper Corp. are going ahead with joint plans to construct a $40 million titanium production plant. But most makers figure that the large civilian market will be slow to develop. Said one titanium maker last week: "Everyone is scrambling for new markets. I don't know where we will go from here...
Convinced that copper was in oversupply in September of 1901, Baruch was busily selling Amalgamated Copper short when his mother called to remind him that the next market day was Yom Kippur. With some trepidation, Baruch decided to observe it. That morning the stock sagged below 100 but by noon rallied to 97. Had Baruch been on the trading floor, he would have closed out his short position and taken the small profit. By the market's close, Amalgamated Copper slumped again to 931. Emboldened by the events of the holy day, Baruch maintained his short position for months...
...Copper Belt. In Bethany, Okla., Jerry Alan Porter, 14, "needed some money for vacation," so he picked up $230 in bills at the bank in exchange for his long-saved 23,000 pennies...