Word: metallize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hunts' downfall was in the making long before the oil slump. Their troubles go back to 1979, when Bunker and Herbert began hoarding silver. They ultimately amassed some 59 million oz. of the precious metal, which seemed a shrewd move as the price of silver climbed to a high of $50.35 per oz. in January 1980. It was a gamble characteristic of the sons of H.L. Hunt, who once made a living as a cardplayer. But this time the Hunts' luck ran out. When the silver price plummeted to $10.20 per oz. two months later, the Hunts were suddenly left...
...Montana and Colorado. The treasure hunt is bound to bolster the position of the U.S. as No. 4 among gold-mining countries. America's importance as a producer has increased lately because traders have become fearful of disrupted output from the world's leading supplier: South Africa. The precious metal's price surged last week to nearly $421 per troy oz., up from about $333 last April...
...across "corndom," as Author E.J. Kahn Jr. likes to call it, there is a frantic search for storage space. In Dubuque they will use caves. On the Missouri River, they will tie up barges and stuff them. The Behlen Mfg. Co., in Columbus, Neb., which makes metal bins, has increased its work force from 350 to 750. Marion Havens, of Greenfield, Iowa, who assembles bins, is working triple his usual pace, rooting a new one every fourth day in some field. They point toward the blue sky like truncated missiles. If only we could fire them toward the Soviet Union...
...become almost numbed to racial violence, it was a night to remember -- or to try to forget. In Soweto, the sprawling African township (pop. 2 million) outside Johannesburg, three Land Rovers full of police pulled up to a burning roadblock constructed of garbage cans, tires, logs and scrap metal. Along the barricade stood a crowd of angry youths. Some Sowetans claim that the trouble actually started two hours earlier, when police broke up a meeting called to discuss the threatened eviction of people who were refusing to pay their rent. The government, on the other hand, maintained that the flashpoint...
Birthday planners also orginally called on theSecret Service in anticipation of a possibleappearance by President Reagan. If the Presidenthad attended, security would have been eventighter. Spectators would have had to enter theYard through metal detectors like those found inairports, said Francis H. Burr '35, chairman ofthe 350th Anniversary Celebration Commission...