Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...early as 10,000 years ago, he says, a very primitive people lived in the region. They left few relics except crude stone weapons. Then, about 1000 B.C., people of superior culture must have come down from the north. They made beautiful flint spearheads, knew how to work copper...
Back in 1946, young Joe Cooper and his" father-in-law, Fletcher Bronson, of Monticello, Utah, paid $1,000 for 500 acres of copper-mining property in southwestern Utah. They soon regretted the investment: the copper ore was so heavily contaminated with uranium that nobody wanted to process it. Then the atomic age got into swing, and Cooper and the Bronson family forgot all about copper. Their Happy Jack mine never had a waste dump, because every pound of rock dug up was commercial-grade ore. Last week Cooper, now 45, and the Bronsons decided that the mine...
Without Fever. Through the Depression, El Paso was kept alive by the Arizona copper industry, then spread to the growing cities of Phoenix and Tucson...
...COPPER PINCH will get worse in 1956. Defense needs are so high that the Commerce Department will order producers to set aside another 8,000,000 Ibs. of copper-base products ln first-quarter 1956 for military and AEC orders, bringing the three-month total to 116 million...
...cliffs. Today Elath is a port settlement of 500, with a jetty, barracks, airfield, a prefab town hall, a power plant, botanical garden and stadium. By next year Elath is to house the first of up to 12,000 Israelis, who will smelt and ship 7000 tons of copper a year from the newly reopened King Solomon's mines, high in the flinty heart of the Negev...