Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...left in good shape by the sound policies of ex-Premier Pedro Beltrán, and well tended by the interim military government, was in blooming health. The sol is one of the solidest currencies in Latin America. Foreign reserves stand at a fat $106 million, old industries like copper mining are expanding, and new industries like fish-meal fertilizer are running strong...
Carpetbaggers and copper barons rubbed elbows on verandas of the cavernous Grand Union and United States hotels; Eastern empire builders frittered away fortunes at chuck-a-luck and roulette. Diamond Jim Brady loved to strut down Broadway wearing 2,548 of his favorite gems, all at once. Lillian Russell ("that woman,"" Saratogians called her) pedaled around town on a gold-plated bike. E. Berry Wall, "the King of the Dudes," once changed clothes 40 times in one day to win a wager. And John ("Bet-a-Million") Gates was the talk of the town when...
...Captain Joe winced at her work, and after involving the paper in a libel suit, she finally quit. Turning to other adventure she hunted in Asia, fly-fished in Norway, piloted her own plane around Europe. Twice divorced from husbands of her father's choice, Alicia married Copper Fortune Heir Harry Guggenheim over Captain Joe's strenuous objections...
...thousand tiny common denominators of civilization. Most ended with little more than sore feet. But some who began as peddlers created American business dynasties: Samuel Pels of Fels-Naptha soap, Department Store Founders Adam Gimbel, Benjamin Altman and Marshall Field, and Meyer Guggenheim, whose family made a fortune in copper...
...political strength lies with the Luanda tribe, now isolated in the new Lualaba province, his chances might be slim. Though Tshombe still has considerable popularity in Katanga, the Europeans there want no more adventures, and the flourishing Union Miniere asks only that it be allowed to mine copper undisturbed and continue earning $260 million a year for the Congo-more than twice the export revenue of the rest of the country. The secessionist spirit seems to be dying. Says one of Tshombe's old ministers: "We were puppets protecting European interests, and now nobody wants to pull our strings...