Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Because they evade taxes and otherwise violate state and federal laws, moonshiners are the constant prey of federal and state officials. But policing them is like policing weeds. With their portable stills, copper coils, sugar and corn, they are suddenly in or out of business on any ridge or in any gully. In recent years, with demand increased because of high taxes (up to 56% of the purchase price) on legal liquor, moonshiners have been working overtime. Last year revenuers cooled 22,913 stills in the U.S. But they missed even more. The ones they missed cooked an estimated...
...Vegas, Molybdenum Corp. of America's new 50-million-ton "rare earth" mine at Mountain Pass, Calif., a $28 million Hughes guided-missile plant and a Douglas Aircraft experimentation plant at Tucson, industry" new plants at aviation, Phoenix, electronics and a and brand-new, "smokeless $120 million Magma Copper mine, mill smelter and town at San Manuel, Ariz., to mine the newest and biggest proved deposit of copper ore in the U.S. (see color pictures...
...sculpture award went to another Italian, 45-year-old Sculptor Mirko, for his bronze, stone and copper figures. Not until the jury got to the 18 lesser awards did a West Coast artist finally score: a purchase award to Kentucky-born San Franciscan Ralph du Casse, 39, for his strong linear abstraction entitled The Viking. The news, when it reached California, all but floored Prizewinner du Casse. Said he: "I'm amazed. I don't paint to sell. That's too much to hope...
...copper bosses killed...
...most celebrated of Neal's predecessors was Joe Hillstrom, writer of ballads and doughty organizer of Utah copper unions for the I.W.W. before World War I. Joe Hillstrom was convicted of murdering a grocer in a holdup, but the comrades of his union insisted to the end that he was framed...