Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Olin Mathieson, running counter to a downward trend among chemical companies, had a record 36% rise in earnings for the quarter to $16,600,000. Sales, said President Gordon Grand, were $284 million, or 11% higher than last year, because of "strong contributions from agricultural chemicals, copper-base alloys, Winchester-Western, Olinkraft forest products and from our Squibb division...
...Pressure the industrialized nations, through the good offices of the U.S., to grant trade concessions to the Latin American countries so that their main exports-coffee, sugar and copper-will no longer be adversely affected by wild fluctuations in world markets...
Just to Listen. The strict security arrangements kept Johnson from mingling with Latin Americans and pressing the flesh, but he made up for that in his private sessions with the Presidents. His face burnished copper by the warm Uruguayan sun, he sat in a lounge chair on the lawn of his seaside villa and, between formal summit sessions, received a steady procession of Latin American leaders in arm-gripping, rib-punching, face-to-face talks. "I'm not here to say 'You do that and you do this,'" Johnson told the Presidents. "I'm just here...
...TRANSMITTING POWER. Because of the difficulty often involved in stringing power lines through mountains and backwoods areas, other methods of transmitting power have long been sought. Microwaves, which generate a current when they strike an electrical conductor like copper, may provide an answer. Instead of being fed into power lines, electricity produced at a power station could be used to generate microwaves that would be beamed at a moun tain-top radar station or observatory where they would be converted back into electrical energy...
...because it stole, with little change, the thunder from their land-for-the-masses campaign promises. The landlords were unhappy because the government paid low prices for the expropriated property. A united front of leftist parties called FRAP attacked his plan to "Chileanize" the country's foreign-owned copper industry because it stopped short of nationalization. The rich complained about having to pay income taxes; the middle class griped about Frei's anti-inflationary moves, which held down wage increases. The poor fretted that Promo-don Popular-Frei's war on poverty-did not do enough...