Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...same shorthand fate overtook the female planet, Venus, whose Greek name Phosphorus was reduced to Ph (Φ) and subsequently-perhaps by the same careless Grecians-to ø. When medieval alchemists came upon these symbols, they found them useful: δ (Mars) was associated with hard iron, φ (Venus) with softer copper. Later, the symbols were adopted by Swedish Naturalist Carolus Linnaeus (1707-1778), the father of modern systematic biology, who found them so aptly descriptive of the male and female gender that they are still used for the same purpose today...
Increasing the Chapters. Protests are louder still in Chile. Reacting to a report by Presidential Envoy Adlai Stevenson that "economic stagnation continues in Chile," Minister of Mines Enrique Serrano put the blame on U.S. copper companies, announced that Congress would get a bill requiring the companies to 1) increase production by 15% yearly. 2) refine all their copper in Chile, 3) build housing for their workers. According to Santiago Radio Commentator Francisco Olivares. the Alliance for Progress could be very simply defined: "The Latin Americans have a problem, and the U.S. has a problem. The problem...
Same Old Mess. A year after independence, the Congo's economy was a national mess. Katanga, whose copper mines have missed hardly a day's work through all the troubles, was booming. But in the rest of the Congo, 70% of the labor force was unemployed. Exports, which before independence averaged $20 million a month, had dropped to $6.5 million. Inflation had pushed food prices up 20%, and building construction was at a complete standstill. Yet, by African standards, the Congo is a rich country, and somehow things faltered on, thanks mainly to the U.N., which had poured...
...next six months or a year," says top Securities Analyst Edmund Tabell of Walston & Co., "the market will move higher under entirely new leaders. These will be the glamour stocks of five years ago-chemicals, paper, aluminum, rubber." Says Bruce Dorman, research director for Reynolds & Co. in San Francisco: "Copper issues have been very big, and machinery, steels and chemicals are all doing well." Nor are all the professionals ready even to write off the 1960-61 glamour issues-especially if the economists should prove right about a coming nationwide boom...
...months, the blacks and whites of Central Africa have been squabbling over control of Northern Rhodesia, a sprawling African territory containing 2,400,000 people above ground and 700 million tons of copper reserves below. Racing in and out of London, African Leader Kenneth Kaunda insisted that nothing short of majority control for the blacks would be acceptable in the new constitution being drafted. Portly Prime Minister Sir Roy Welensky fought back with stern threats; fearful that black control of Northern Rhodesia would destroy his Federation of the Rhodesias and Nyasaland, he hinted darkly of secession from British control unless...