Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Brazil's exploding population; what was once useless scrub in the central state of Goiás is now pasture land for 4,000,000 head of cattle. And prospectors fanning out from the road have found a vast mineral potential, with deposits of nickel, tin, lead, zinc, copper, gold, diamonds and quartz...
...weeks ago a highland district reform commissioner suddenly declared afectada (destined for expropriation) one of the most efficient ranch operations in the country: 440,000 acres owned by Cerro de Pasco Co., Peru's copper giant. Cerro officials reacted first with disbelief, then outrage when government officials refused to reconsider. In bypassing scores of marginally operated highland estates, said Cerro, the government had violated the spirit, if not the precise letter, of its own law. The company pointed out that its sheep produce three times as much meat as the neighboring Indian herds; furthermore, it ran the ranch...
Nowadays, Johnson is not only prac ticing Keynesia? economics but is pursuing policies of Pressure and persuasion that go far beyond anything Keynes ever dreamed of. In 1965 Johnson vigorously wielded the wage-price guide-lines" to hold wages and prices down, forced producers of aluminum, copper and wheat to retreat from price hikes by threatening to dump the Government's commodity stockpiles and battled the nation s persistent balance-of-payments deficit ,with the so-called "voluntary" controls on spending and lending abroad. Some Keynesians believe that these policies violate Keynes's theories because they are basically microeconomic instead...
...Quick as the wind that often stirred the banana trees with utter ferocity in his home town, where his favorite horse had died an alcoholic death, the smart copper jumped on the thief just as the sinister individual was about to ride off on his faithful vehicle...
Outlawed Stamp. Not quite so funny were the new economic sanctions that Wilson slapped on Rhodesia. In addition to the embargo on Rhodesian tobacco and sugar (the nation's major crops), Britain also banned imports of asbestos (a $30 million export item last year), copper, lithium, chrome, iron, steel and meat. That made the embargo 95% complete. Simultaneously, Wilson ordered a halt to interest payments, dividends and pensions from Britain to Rhodesian residents, thus damming a flow of income that totaled some $25 million last year. He even outlawed Rhodesia's bright new independence postal stamp as British...