Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fireballs & Astrophysics. The gift of Charles Hayden, a dapper Boston-born banker (Hayden, Stone & Co.) who made millions speculating in copper, the versatile robot was built at the Zeiss Works in Jena, Germany at a cost of $110,000. When it made its debut, it was the fourth such instrument installed in a U.S. planetarium. There are now six Zeiss planetaria spotted across the country...
Praising commercial interests, Eisenhower pointed with sympathetic pride at the general price stability. Despite a rather large, though expected, jump in the cost of copper and coffee, initial price rises have been moderate. But some groups, led by the National Association of Manufacturers, want assurance of perpetual freedom. They oppose even the stand-by controls recommeded by the President's financial advisers...
...Administration, gradually unshackling the economy, had taken the controls off cigarettes, along with copper, aluminum, rice and most processed foods. Cigarette makers promptly took advantage by boosting prices. Fuming smokers scarcely noticed that the price of copper jumped from 24½? a lb. to as high as 32?-even though this might hit their pocketbooks harder...
Chain Reaction. The copper rise set off a chain reaction. Brass producers raised their prices to keep pace. Auto-parts makers warned Detroit that they would have to revise their price lists. The price of artillery shells, bomb fuses and many another military item bought by the Defense Department was sure to go up. Were these sudden price increases an abuse? In the case of copper producers, it scarcely seemed so. The profits of the coppermen have been dwindling, squeezed between higher labor costs and the ceilings. Moreover, at a time when domestic producers have been frozen...
...Minneapolis, the Walker Art Center devoted six rooms to Baizerman's biggest exhibit ever: 35 hammered pieces, from his muscular Unknown Soldier to a tender Suckling child and a long panel of intertwined nudes. In five weeks the gallery counted 5,000 visitors. Three of Baizerman's copper bas-reliefs were sold, and the Art Center has already made plans to send the show on to museums in Des Moines, San Francisco and Ottawa. Saul Baizerman was on hand for the opening, then scurried back to Manhattan to make Greenwich Village ring anew with his hammer...