Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...recollection of the sad night in May, 1925, in the old Madison Square Garden, which was about to be demolished. There was Boxing Announcer Joe Humphreys, bellowing at the crowd with a genuine sob in his voice, delivering an ode to the Garden and the gilded copper nude that stood atop it: "Farewell to thee, O Temple of Fistiana, farewell to thee, O sweet Miss Diana...
Start again. This time Diana was only 13 feet tall and perfect - an 800-lb. beauty of gilded sheet copper...
Saint-Gaudens added a flowing cloak of copper sheets, so she could act as a wind vane as well, and up she went on the Garden tower, to twirl on a swivel before the prevailing breeze. New York fell in love at first sight. She became the protectress of the cat show, the horse show, the sportsmen's show, the prizefights and circuses. Around 1905, a severe storm ripped away her cloak; from then on she was bolted securely down. She presided over William Jennings Bryan's nomination for President, saw Jack Dempsey knock out Bill Brennan...
...average $4.68 that G.M.'s workers now get in wages and benefits. More realistically, the union's goal is probably a full 6% increase-at a time when the automakers are just beginning to feel the cost of mandatory safety modifications and higher prices in steel, copper and rubber. Ford last week announced that, even without a strike and a big wage increase, the company's profits will be down about 40% this year from 1966's $621 million...
Such a step seems unlikely, if for no other reason than that the Congolese capital is 1,000 miles from Bukavu. But unless Schramme gets his way, he may be tempted to march southward into Katanga, where the great copper mines supply most of the Congo's wealth and the tribesmen still revere the man who led the Congo's first armed revolt, Moise Tshombe of Katanga...