Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...past 30 years, the neighbors have always known when Saul Baizerman was at work. To fashion his copper sculpture, he hangs huge sheets of shining copper from the ceiling of his Greenwich Village apartment, flails away at them with a hammer until the ringing metal bends and twists, forms dimpled bas-reliefs of prancing nudes, cherubic children, and heroic figures from mythology...
...front of Grant's Tomb. "I felt it belonged to a world of the past," he says. "It had been done better than I could do it, and to continue would be a false thing." Baizerman rejected the commission, began experimenting with lithe, modern figures in bronze and copper, and has been at it ever since...
...Each copper sheet takes years to shape, with expert, glancing blows just hard enough to dent but not puncture the thin metal. The critics were impressed with his work from the start, but shows were scarce, and Baizerman scrabbled a living as a part-time teacher and mechanic, somehow managed to save enough to buy copper for his work...
...prices (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) than the law of supply & demand reasserted itself. In areas where shortages still existed, prices moved up. On the West Coast, crude oil went up 10? a barrel, and Socony-Vacuum predicted a nationwide boost of 1? a gallon in the price of gasoline. Scrap copper, supplies of which had dwindled to almost nothing in expectation of a free market, scooted up 4? a lb. to 25?. Since that was more than the ceiling price on refined copper (24½? a lb.), metalmen were sure that the refined metal will spurt closer to the world price...
...example, the quota for the second quarter is 1,500,000 cars, whereas materials have been allotted for only 1,250,000. Automen have had their hands full getting enough metals for even that many cars. With metals still tight, a bigger test will come when & if ceilings on copper, steel and aluminum are abolished. Since scrap prices are rising, the primary metals are sure to follow if the ceilings come...