Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Their art work, much of which was found in excellent condition, was skillfully and tastefully made. Their figurines look as if they had been modeled by a Copper Age Picasso. They cut conch shells (traded from Egypt) into delicate lacework. Turquoise from Sinai they made into necklaces and amulets...
...Horites were excellent craftsmen. They made fine pottery and effective tools out of bone, flint and copper. The copper they smelted from ore out of the same deposits south of the Dead Sea that King Solomon mined many centuries later. They pulverized it with massive stones and roasted it in furnaces under a forced draught from blowpipes...
...companies use radioisotope thickness gauges to measure the thickness of metals, rubber and plastics. The gauge works automatically as part of the manufacturing process, keeping the thickness of a material uniform. Several companies using the gauge have saved up to $100,000 a year. In the manufacture of sheet copper, a saving of only 2% would mean a national annual saving...
...movie was made by Chicago's Johnson Publishing Co., which puts out the Negro magazines Ebony, Jet, Tan, Copper and Hue. It will be shown to businessmen around the U.S. to drive home the point that the Negro market is huge and profitable. In support of this Secretary Weeks quoted Census Bureau figures showing that the Negroes' total income has quadrupled since 1940. Their median income has shot up even faster. For non-whites (96% of whom are Negroes) the median annual income has risen almost four times, from $489 in 1939 to $1,943 in 1951, while...
...present Chatsworth, their ducal seat, was completed in 1706. Besides such wonders as a copper beech tree fashioned of real copper and a conservatory large enough to drive through in a coach-and-four (so that visitors would not have to step down from their carriage to see the blossoms), Chatsworth boasts one of the world's greatest private art collections. Its graceful galleries are hung with Michelangelos, Raphaels, Titians, Velasquezes and Rembrandts. Its bookcases are crammed with rare manuscripts and incunabula; its halls are studded with classic sculpture...