Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week six trucks rolled up to the old manor house, and policemen stepped out under the copper beeches and laburnums. Admitted to the great house, one of them thrust a document at Lady Garbett. It was an eviction notice ordering her to leave home and farm by 3 o'clock that afternoon...
Imaginations, scholarly and unscholarly, danced to the possibilities hidden in the copper scrolls. When British Philologist John Allegro discoursed with tantalizing assurance of parallels between the scrolls...
...mystery and marvel of the 2,000-year-old scrolls found nine years ago in caves near the ruins of a religious community on the Dead Sea, two scrolls shone with a special aura. For these, instead of leather or parchment, were of copper-a precious metal in those ancient times, betokening a message of highest value. Oxidized by time, the copper scrolls stubbornly withheld their secret while scientists puttered and pondered over the problem of unrolling them without crumbling them to powder...
...Federal Reserve feels that some industrialists are trying to use FRB as a convenient whipping boy for every economic zigzag. But FRB also sees signs that its credit medicine is working effectively. Such sensitive barometers as daily spot-commodity prices have been edging downward, especially in scrap steel and copper. Furthermore, the volatile money market seems to be adjusting to the new climate after a sharp flare-up in April immediately following the latest hike in discount rates to Federal Reserve member banks. Interest rates on short-term (up to 90 days) Treasury bills, which jumped from...
Clyde E. Weed, 65, was elected president of Anaconda Co., succeeding Robert Emmett Dwyer, 70, who is retiring after 53 years with the company. Weed, the company's mining boss since 1938, will be the first engineer in 41 years to head Anaconda, the world's biggest copper mining concern and No. 1 U.S. manganese producer. A graduate of the Michigan State College of Mining and Technology, Weed started at the bottom of a mine as a pick-and-shovel hand in 1911, later managed copper properties throughout Michigan, Arizona and Mexico. In 1935 he was named president...