Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since 1945 Britain has poured billions into African development. Spread among so many who need so much, it sparked no great boom, yet in copper-rich Northern Rhodesia, one town grew so fast that its public-health officials were temporarily officed in a disused public lavatory, with boards nailed over the toilet seats to provide desks and chairs. Across the continent, Gold Coast and Nigeria are becoming useful dollar earners and an important British market...
Danger Signals. Businessmen in a score of fields reported that the slide has stopped. U.S. Steel's Ben Fairless announced to his stockholders that "an upturn in demand is beginning to appear." In the copper industry, which has recently been trimming production. Kennecott Copper President Charles R. Cox also reported a turnabout; his company will increase the work week from five to six days at four western mines. And a special committee of the Government's Business Advisory Council reported that the business decline has leveled...
...this afternoon, editors of both publications will gather on the steps of the 'Poon building to replace the Ibis upon the new copper and slate roof...
...last week's election, which was unmarred by so much as a fist fight, Price harangued a crowd of 5.000 ebony-to-copper-hued partisans. "P.U.P., all de way," chanted the audience. When a speaker hailed Price as "our Gandhi, our George Washington and our future President," a plump mammy in the crowd cackled: "Dat's right, mon, dat's right." But P.U.P. leaders, soft-pedaling their old independence cry, said that the new majority wants first to cooperate with the governor and show that it is a stable and permanent political force. For a beginning, they...
...Irving T. Bennett, 53, was named board chairman of General Cable Corp., makers of wire, cable and conductors. A former vice president and general manufacturing manager of Revere Copper & Brass, Bennett went to General Cable a year ago as a director and chairman of the executive committee. He succeeds Dwight R. G. Palmer, who retired after 35 years with General Cable and its predecessors...