Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Costs & Cars. One peril of prosperity in 1956 will be inflation. Prices are already inching up. Industrial materials are climbing, with producers of steel, copper and aluminum complaining about higher costs, and probable increases of 4% to 5% during the first six months...
...House. In Washington. D.C., Charles Edward Beard was sentenced to a year in jail for stealing Government property after he drove up to a large city comfort station, climbed to the roof under cover of darkness, coolly hacked off 373 Ibs. of sheet copper, drove away...
Unfilled Orders. In almost every part of the country, there was tangible evidence of industrial and business activity to back up Howe's statistics. In the Quebec wilderness, 325 miles north of Montreal, Canadian National Railways is building a $35 million line to Chibougamau, a newly developed copper field. At Hamilton, Ont., the big Steel Co. of Canada, which has spent $100 million on new mills since 1950, reported with rueful pride that it was a full year behind on some orders -and promptly laid on an additional $70 million expansion program. Western oil production increased nearly one-third...
...nonmetallic element that is a byproduct of electrolytic refining of blister copper, used by the electronics industry to coat rectifiers and for photoelectric cells...
...trained men. There are not enough highways, schoolrooms, railroad coal gondolas, high-quality bed sheets, houses, parking places, ladies' electric razors or Lincoln Continental Mark IIs (there is a waiting list in Houston, where the delivered price is $10,700). There are shortages of scrap metal, aluminum, copper, newsprint, canned salmon, seats on airlines from Manhattan to Miami, and selenium.* There are too few salesmen, secretaries, schoolteachers, diemakers, loom fixers, machine-tool operators, mechanics, household servants...