Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Berliners, no statue was more beloved than the great copper-plated goddess of victory driving her four 12-ft. horses proudly atop the 69-ft.-tall Brandenburg Gate. Completed in 1794, the Quadriga of Victory was the most famous work of a minor Prussian court sculptor, Johann Gottfried Schadow. But it caught the admiring eye of Napoleon as he rode in triumph through the gate in 1806, and the conqueror ordered it carted off to Paris. Brought back again by the Prussians in 1815 (when it acquired an iron cross surrounded by an oak leaf topped by an eagle...
...said one of them last week, after a nasty fight with a policeman, "you shoulda seen that copper! One eye 'angin' out and 'is nose all over the side of 'is face, 'e wasn't 'alf slammed. Coo, they really 'ung one on 'im. And the funny thing-we 'ad to laugh-'e said 'e was gettin' married next week...
Titanium for Heat. G.E.'s heatproofers attacked their problem bit by bit. Since copper and aluminum fail at high temperatures, they turned to titanium and corrosion-resistant alloys. They learned how to coat wires with ceramic insulation. They made condensers out of fused aluminum oxide. In vacuum tubes they used titanium and ceramics instead of copper and glass...
...night and is rich as hot gammon. In a country of free teeth he has only five blackened stumps ("tombstones") and possesses nothing much but a cherished tapeworm, which he "gasses" with liberal quantities of raw onion. But his friendship with Arp glows like the lavatory float of "valuable copper" in a desert of uncommercial junk...
PRIVATE URANIUM processing proposal will be sent to Atomic Energy Commission by Koppers Co. Inc., and Kennecott Copper Corp. They will ask AEC for permission to jointly finance and operate first non-Government atomic "feed-materials" plant, producing up to 5,000 tons of uranium salts yearly...