Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...symbol of God's watchful but now indifferent eye, is spared in the ensuing fire. Eventually even this emblem is hauled down from its pinnacle. Placed in the hands of the Church's absurd minister it is found to measure only "five feet from beak to tail feathers; the copper penny of his eye was tiny...
...novel it is impossible to remember who is married to whom. In adultery the tenuous meaning we create by marriage is destroyed, and one human is the same as any other. Eros is no respector of persons. Sexuality is a force as indifferent as electricity to the copper wire of our bodies. Women are, as Piet Hanema, the main character says, "vessels to be filled...
...time, Ben Sack was primarily involved with a copper and smelting plant. In 1949, he was again offered the chance to invest in a movie house. Again he accepted. This time it looked even rougher. The theatre, which had to be refurbished and reopened, was located in Fitchburg, a factory town of 43,000. It had only one competitor, an already successful operation right next door. Within a year and three months, Sack's group bought out the neighboring opposition. It had been owned by Joseph P. Kennedy...
...prepared to help Iran for the quickest possible exploitation of its natural resources." He also persuaded the Iranians to quintuple their Soviet trade, making Russia their biggest customer and biggest supplier. Finally, he talked the Shah into taking Russia in as a full partner in the exploitation of vast copper and oilfields that lie in central Iran. Even for Kosygin, it was an unusually profitable trip...
...which is no small accomplishment in view of the un certainty clouding such key aluminum users as the automobile and home-building industries. Part of the explanation is customer stockpiling as a precaution ary hedge against a possible aluminum strike this summer. The company has also benefited from the copper indus try's marathon strike, during which it has made headway in its efforts to substitute aluminum for copper in telephone cables. Although technological problems still have to be overcome before aluminum can compete with all other metal industries in a big way, Alcoa President John D. Harper...