Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pace of Canada's great industrial expansion quickened. Investors poured $7.5 billion into capital expenditures, notably on oil and gas development, new uranium, copper and nickel mines, and a 20% expansion of the nation's steelmaking capacity. The capital outlay was 15% greater than in 1955 and the annual increase was the sharpest since the all-out years of World...
...worshipers returned the compliment by doing their best to imitate the book. Mostly the offspring of well-heeled parents, Ishihara's characters and Ishihara's fans alike spend their days and nights in unconscious parody of another lost generation, pouring endless drinks down gullets apparently lined with copper, necking for hours in Tokyo "jazz coffee shops" thoughtfully equipped with high-partitioned booths, helling around Japan's cities and beach resorts in imported MGs or local-made Toyopets...
...World War II, and now Mature is grimly determined to make every carchariid in creation pay the reckoning. Assigned to accelerate research on shark repellents. Mature moves in on a sluggish school of scientists like a shovelnose on shrimp. Everything from poison to ultrasonics has been tried, but only copper acetate and octopus juice seem to have much effect on the brutes. However, neither of these is strong enough. What...
...granite in the southern end of the Sinai peninsula. Part of the Greek monastery of St. Catherine there dates back to 330 A.D., indicating how old the tradition is. But to get to Jebel Musa, Moses would have had to lead his people through the Egyptian copper and turquoise mines in the area...
Into the House. Back in Montana, dogged Mike Mansfield slaved days in the copper mines around Butte, slaved nights studying to make up for his missed education. Passing special entrance examinations, he went to the Montana School of Mines and Montana State University, won his master's degree in history and political science at 31, was appointed professor of Latin American and Far Eastern history at Montana State. He gave up teaching for the U.S. House of Representatives in 1943 (having defeated Republican Jeannette Rankin, who cast the lone congressional vote against a U.S. declaration of war after Pearl...