Word: coppers
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...refuse?" he asked rhetorically. "If I had said no, the Germans would just have taken it for nothing." So Joseph said yes and, as the chief German scrap agent in France, made a fortune variously estimated from $16 million to $84 million. Once, because of a delivery of defective copper scrap, he was thrown into prison for a few months, but he bribed his guards, and his cell was well stocked with foie gras and smoked salmon...
Regularly every month Joanovici sent off a check for a million francs to the French treasury, boasted: "I am France's most conscientious taxpayer!" Admitted a business rival: "Armed simply with a telephone, Joanovici practically controlled the world price of copper scrap...
...father summoned a guard. Two bars, worth an estimated $10,000 apiece melted down, had indeed disappeared. The case was opened. The remaining bars proved to be not gold but copper...
...150th anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln, President Eisenhower approved the first change in the penny's design since the Indian disappeared in 1909. By Feb. 12, the U.S. Mint will be well stocked with bright new copper coins. On the face will be the familiar, haggard profile. On the reverse side will be a new front view of the Lincoln Memorial, a rearrangement of the old words: "One Cent." "United States of America." "E Pluribus Unum...
...around iced Algerian wine. Instead of the traditional Christmas tree, cotton balls on bamboo shoots will have to do. After the party the young American assistants will leave Banmethuot; two by two, they will scatter into remote settlements of Viet Nam, teaching still others to farm-earning still other copper bracelets that cannot be found under the tree at home...