Word: metalled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...June unreasonably cool, but this week New York City's 7,795,471 residents finally read unmistakable signposts of an impending weather change - and with it a threat of sociological change. Shortened were Manhattan's winter skyscraper shadows; the tall towers of stone, glass and burnished metal reached upward nearly shadowless under the hazy midday...
After bobbing around in the low $20 millions all winter, new domestic orders for metal-cutting and shaping tools briefly hit $29.8 million in March (caused by bunching up three large orders that normally would have been spread over a quarter), dropped to $20.8 million again in April, in May jumped to $23.7 million. To economists, who scan toolmakers' order books for a tip-off to future spending plans of a wide range of manufacturers, even such slight changes are encouraging...
...thing that holds up orders is a tug of war between toolmakers and their customers over price. Since the last general rises in 1956, makers have not changed listed prices. But a lot of secret deals are being made. Said Greenlee Brothers & Co. of Rockford, Ill. (metal and wood working tools): "In the last few weeks we've had more inquiries about orders than in the previous five months. From all the haggling over price, obviously prices are being shaved all around...
...prison of Vac near Budapest, prisoners formed a remarkable literary cooperative. For writing paper, they stole toilet paper. They fashioned pens out of metal fragments and mixed blood and coffee grounds for ink. By pooling their memories, they produced portions of Ovid, Catullus, Vergil, Shakespeare and Whitman in the original Latin and English, then translated them into Hungarian. In the end, the Vac prisoners produced a handwritten, hand-bound, four-volume anthology of prose and verse...
...Seaton plan touched off a burst of speculation in the metal. Copper futures rose briefly; custom smelters boosted their prices 1? to 26? per Ib., and the free market price of copper on the London Metal Exchange rose to 25? per Ib., highest since September 1957, before it fell back. Though domestic stocks of refined copper are 253,463 tons, highest since World War II, traders figured that the stockpiling could cut down the surplus, pave the way for a rise from the 25?-per-lb. price still maintained by primary producers. But copper miners pointed out that any real...