Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eaten, the Middle African man-in-the-bush was for the most part unaware of the rich potential of the land beneath his feet. There, waiting to be found by the white man, were some of the earth's greatest stores of precious gems, iron, coal, gold, tin, copper and tungsten for the dawning age of electricity, pitchblende from which the minerals of the atomic age would one day be refined, and scores of other metals...
Tulla does use "chemex" percolators, however, besides the venerable copper arrangement, through which she filters the basic grind for many of her blends. "Salesmen have offered me modern replacements," she notes, "but I wouldn't change it. Tulla herself is a product of European coffee hospitality, and Cook tries to maintain the "civilized tradition" of the European coffee houses...
...company's founders. Walter, president since 1950, becomes chairman of the board. Vogelstein, who has been vice president since 1953, faces the immediate task of improving American Metal's profit picture, which suffered in the March quarter (47? a share v. 1956's 57?) from lower copper prices...
Like RW, every company is trying to copper its bets by developing civilian products for peacetime markets. But many of them, with no sales or marketing organizations, will find the going too hard. The biggest winners will probably be the big companies with years of production and selling experience...
...high-energy title until the completion, probably in 1960, of the 25-Bev machine now under construction at Brookhaven. It will be big (840 ft. in diameter), but its greatly increased power will be made possible by a new principle called "strong focusing." It will need 500 tons of copper and only a small amount of steel...