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...Gene over to Marv Jenson, a local mink rancher, who had developed the once-promising heavyweight Rex Layne. Young Gene was the kind of willing worker that Jenson had always wanted. Out of high school, he had a job as an apprentice welder, in the repair shop at Kennecott Copper's great open-pit mine, but he still had the energy to get up at five o'clock every morning and put in three to four miles of roadwork. He also worked out daily in Jenson's gym. After a year-long layoff to practice a different...
...pace of Canada's great industrial expansion quickened. Investors poured $7.5 billion into capital expenditures, notably on oil and gas development, new uranium, copper and nickel mines, and a 20% expansion of the nation's steelmaking capacity. The capital outlay was 15% greater than in 1955 and the annual increase was the sharpest since the all-out years of World...
...worshipers returned the compliment by doing their best to imitate the book. Mostly the offspring of well-heeled parents, Ishihara's characters and Ishihara's fans alike spend their days and nights in unconscious parody of another lost generation, pouring endless drinks down gullets apparently lined with copper, necking for hours in Tokyo "jazz coffee shops" thoughtfully equipped with high-partitioned booths, helling around Japan's cities and beach resorts in imported MGs or local-made Toyopets...
...World War II, and now Mature is grimly determined to make every carchariid in creation pay the reckoning. Assigned to accelerate research on shark repellents. Mature moves in on a sluggish school of scientists like a shovelnose on shrimp. Everything from poison to ultrasonics has been tried, but only copper acetate and octopus juice seem to have much effect on the brutes. However, neither of these is strong enough. What...
...granite in the southern end of the Sinai peninsula. Part of the Greek monastery of St. Catherine there dates back to 330 A.D., indicating how old the tradition is. But to get to Jebel Musa, Moses would have had to lead his people through the Egyptian copper and turquoise mines in the area...