Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Among economists and financiers, the decision to reduce silver to a free market metal, like copper or tin, won resounding applause. On the silver market itself, the immediate repercussions were a jump in prices from 91? to just over a dollar an ounce and a sudden upsurge in silver-mining stocks. Whether this upward trend continues will determine how the battle lines will be drawn when Kennedy formally asks for legislation to discontinue silver as currency backing in the next session of Congress. If prices soar much higher, industrial silver users will surely put up a howl...
...sawed in half, suspends the motor separately from the table to reduce the rumble even below its already low figure. A special belt had to be used to drive the table, since the one supplied by Rek-O-Kut was not adaptable for such use. A sheet of copper lies under the whole unit, grounded by special cable to the Marants Pre-amplifier. As a result of these precautions total noise in the Humphrey system has been reduced to the point where it is completely inaudible with the volume control wide open...
...growth of automation is also hard on smaller businessmen: most of them cannot afford to buy automated gear, but they must buck the steadily lower production costs-and selling prices-of the larger operators who can. To copper their bets against gyrations in consumer demands, bigger companies are diversifying into retail areas that have long been dominated by smaller dealers, e.g., mail-order houses have begun to sell prescription drugs, supermarkets are selling hardware and garden supplies. And the increase of cut-rate imports hurts smaller, single-product businessmen more than those who market a broad line...
...date, the copper hairs have not disturbed the astronomers. "Even the boys at Lincoln Lab, who are looking for them, can't find them," observed Huguenin...
Seventy-five pounds of the copper filaments soared aloft aboard a Midas IV satellite two weeks ago, in an experiment conducted by M.I.T.'s Lincoln Laboratory. Anticipating that the copper hairs would form a belt encircling the globe, the scientists hoped that this belt would act as a huge antenna, reflecting radio signals back to earth...