Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Britain's copper-rich protectorate of Northern Rhodesia has a population of 2,394,000, in which the blacks outnumber the whites by 30 to 1 and are threatening revolt unless they get power to match the proportions. Last week Britain bowed to the inevitable and gave the white-dominated protectorate a new constitution that may put the blacks in control by the end of this year...
...Force project was to encircle the globe with a band made up of 350 million tiny copper wires, which could be used as a reflector to relay radio messages. Nothing has since been seen of the wires. *Named for Loveman Noa, a 23-year-old midshipman, who was killed in 1901 near Leyte in the Philippines while fighting insurgents...
...which President Kennedy brought up the subject of stockpiling that sent a shudder last week through metal centers from the aluminum mills of California to the copper mines of the Congo. In harsher language than he usually uses at his press conferences, the President implied that the nation's 23-year-old war-emergency stockpiling program was chockablock with "mismanagement" and "unconscionable profits" and demanded a congressional investigation. On Wall Street, copper, lead, zinc and aluminum stocks softened, and futures in metals and rubber nosed down...
Senefelder was familiar with etching, but etching a whole script on copper plates would take too much time. One day. his mother asked him to make a list of some laundry she was about to send out. Almost without thinking, Senefelder wrote the list on a flat piece of limestone that had come from the quarries of Solnhofen. He used an etching crayon of wax. soap and lampblack-and got the idea that he might cover the stone with acid that would eat away the part of the surface not protected by the crayon. It worked, but in the traditional...
...functions." His Roman Antiquities made him famous; his Views of Rome is the greatest pictorial biography ever done of Rome. He worked tirelessly on, defying to the last the new champions of ancient Athens. Even while abed with the cancer that killed him, he called for his tools and copper plates. "Rest is unworthy of a Roman citizen," he said...