Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Strategic items under flat embargo were reduced from 260 to 170. Permitted exports include crude oil, diesel oil, mica, non-military tires, non-turbine locomotives, air-conditioning equipment, general-purpose machine tools, light generators, light tractors. Raw copper is still banned, but copper wire is released...
...started life in Utah, where his father managed a copper mine before it was sold and he decided to move to California and go into chicken ranching. The elder Rowe soon found this too hazardous a business, so he invented a speedwriting system called Rowe Vowel Shorthand and opened a business school in Michigan. When this venture also failed, the family moved to San Francisco and Guy got a job peddling newspapers. After the 1906 earthquake, the Rowes headed for Detroit, where Guy went to work in the railroad station smashing baggage at $2 a week...
RUSSIA'S TRADE with the West will pick up. Under British pressure, 15 nations (including the U.S.) have agreed to lift export controls on crude and diesel oils, light machine tools, farm tractors, copper wire, air conditioners, mica, tungsten, some 150 other products. Still under embargo: 170 strategic items, including weapons, uranium and airplanes...
...Copper for the craftsman, cunning at his trade...
...other. At the beginning of each test, a strong-walled tube six feet long and three inches in diameter is charged at high pressure with an explosive mixture of hydrogen, oxygen and helium. When the gas is detonated (with a bang like a 37 mm. gun), it ruptures a copper diaphragm. A blast of hot gases preceded by a shockwave races down a long evacuated tube. Pushed by pressure behind and pulled by the vacuum ahead, it expands through two nozzles and in a twinkling reaches the speed of 10,000 m.p.h. (13 times the speed of sound...