Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Copper has generally been a contentious metal, existing side by side with violent political upheavals, bitter labor strife and speculative price binges. It is the modern metal of communications, a major ingredient of the wires that serve the vast electrical-equipment industry, the huge utilities, and the radio and TV networks. Yet it has seldom caused more excitement than it did last week. A U.S. company, Texas Gulf Sulphur, announced the discovery of one of the biggest and richest copper lodes in history near Timmins, Ont., 350 miles north of Toronto. Test borings so far indicate a find at Timmins...
Strikes & Shortage. The latest copper find just added more excitement to the world copper situation, which is already cluttered and chaotic. Strikers last week slowed production in the rich copper mine area of the Congo, around which Moise Tshombe's shooting war revolved only last year. In Chile, where it often seems that copper labor would rather walk out than work, two crucial wage contracts run out this year; beyond that, Leftist Salvador Allende, who has made nationalization of U.S. copper mines his key plank, is making a strong bid for President in Chile's Sept. 4 election...
...other industry except copper, the prospect of rising prices and sharpening demand would cause only happy visions of fatter profits. When copper prices spiraled once before in the mid-1950s, however, many users turned to such substitutes as aluminum and plastics. "At that point," says Dr. Charles H. Moore, executive vice president of the International Copper Research Association, "copper became a defensive industry." Companies had to fight to protect the markets they had left...
...circuits and their transistors are both made by automatic machines that turn them out by the thousand. Instead of hiring girls to attach hair-thin wires under the micro scope, the wiring is done by etching holes through a protective film of glass and shaking into them pellets of copper five-thousandths of an inch in diameter...
Alice was a pretty thing, with blond hair verging on copper tones. There was a sort of fairylike fragility about her arching, slender neck and delicately cut profile, and though she was not really small she seemed so, for she was slender and small-boned, not like a Watteau shepherdess, but like a little girl, and every move she made was graceful and unhurried as grain bending in the wind. Eric was not really handsome, but he had a clean-cut youthfulness, sleek hair, clear eyes and skin, and a certain litheness in his movements that bespoke the practiced athlete...