Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...general cause. City hospital officials began a thorough investigation last week, but one fact was established immediately: though Cumberland had taken careful precautions (cotton gowns for the surgeons, metal chains on the anesthetic machine), its operating-room floor was tile, and lacked a grounded grid of conductive material, e.g., copper, to drain off static electricity. The U.S. Bureau of Mines and the National Board of Fire Underwriters recommend that operating-room floors be grounded in some such way. But there is no uniform code, and doctors disagree about what is safest...
Metals. Phelps Dodge, second biggest domestic copper producer, saw its net fall from $12.7 million to $9.2 million; Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical went from...
...dosing the sheep with chemicals did not help the vegetation of the desert. So the scientists went to work again. Recently they found that lack of zinc in the soil was what sickened the plants. Some crops needed copper too. So the scientists added small amounts of the two elements to test plots, which responded at once with good crops of oats, clover and alfalfa...
...drawing a steadily increasing stream of tourists and sportsmen to northern Canada and Alaska. It has also opened up a new avenue for prospectors, giving them access to a new mineral-rich area scarcely tapped before. In the last five years, new deposits of silver, lead, gold, zinc, copper, asbestos, tungsten, molybdenum and manganese have been found in paying quantities near the highway...
Contributors to the original telescope and its housing ranged from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences to the Revere Copper Company. The lenses for the first telescope then called the Great Refractor, came from Munich in 1846 and 1847 and by June, 1847, the telescope was in use. A transit circle then came from London and the first $100,000 endowment--was received from the Phillips Fund shortly afterwards...