Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...choice of using this extra production reserve for greater arms output or for civilian production. Fowler proved his point with an admission which was, for a bureaucrat, amazing. If the new production is not used for defense, said he, all controls on such once short items as copper, steel and aluminum can be removed by early next year...
...boost would not have to be paid for by the customer. The OPS flooded with demands for higher ceilings by 1,800 manufacturers, got ready a "pass-through" letting them tack on their higher costs from the $5.20-a-ton price boost in steel, plus additional markups for higher copper and aluminum prices...
...another word. Simply jot them down as they come to you-and keep writing!" Lesson Seven ("Super-Speedway to Stardom") says: 'You must select the words that are to be spun into phrases and the phrases to be spun into entries. You must separate the gold from the copper coins." By Lesson Twelve, students are being coached in such dark mysteries as the use of the "Mystic Three." Says Shepherd: "Even Julius Caesar used a Mystic Three verb cluster when he uttered his famous words: 'I came, I saw, I conquered...
...reux Ruest, 54, was the man who manufactured the time bomb that exploded and killed 23 people (including President E. T. Stannard of Kennecott Copper Corp. and two other Americans) on a Quebec Airways plane in September 1949. A watchmaker, Ruest made the bomb with a stick of dynamite and the mechanism of an alarm clock for his friend Albert Guay, in return for a $10 ring. Guay wanted to kill his wife, who was on the plane, not only because he had a mistress whom he preferred, but also to collect a $10,000 insurance policy...
...since the Government is willing to provide a guaranteed market at a price which will probably assure the company a profit, McNab is sure he can get the money. If he does, he estimates that by 1958 San Manuel will annually be turning out 140 million Ibs. of copper, an increase of 8% in U.S. production, and 6,000,000 Ibs. of molybdenum, a boost...