Word: coppering
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...cooks have had long reigns. Greatest of them was the great Copper, who retired in 1927 after cooking Paderewski's meals for 25 years. After a midnight meal in his private car on some Midwestern siding, Paderewski once called the waiter to him. "Tell Mr. Copper," he beamed, "that the meat, the vegetables and the dessert were excellent." The waiter went out, then reappeared. "Mr. Copper said to tell you," he reported, "that the soup was excellent...
...Europe, it would stretch from Moscow to Madrid. To compensate for its unwieldy shape, nature has given it a variety of riches: underneath its parched yellow soil in the desolate northern region lie the world's most valuable deposits of nitrate and the second largest known deposits of copper; its pleasant, well-watered, fertile central area, where most of its people live, supplies more wheat, cattle and wine than Chile can use; and its rain-sodden southern provinces are rich in lumber, much of them still virgin territory and inhabited by half-savage Indians...
Finding an impurity in their copper that they could not get rid of, exasperated German copper miners of the early 18th Century called it kupjernickel (copper devil). Canadian Copper Co. felt the same way about nickel until 1902 when it combined with two U. S. companies that owned a nickel-refining process. The combine eventually became The International Nickel Co. of Canada, Ltd., which produces 85% of the world's nickel and made $24,000,000 in 1938's first nine months...
...sold his claim for $30,000. Deep beneath tall smelter chimneys and black slag mounds, its shafts bite 3,425 feet into the earth; from its honeycomb of stopes come 12,000 tons of nut-brown ore every working day. A ton of Frood ore contains 95 pounds of copper, 47 pounds of nickel, and the farther the shafts pierce toward the earth's core the richer the ore becomes...
...unlike Germany's as a sickle is unlike a swastika. The world must remember that 15,000 Nacistas helped elect Chile's Popular Front President Pedro Aguirre Cerda last October. Henceforth the party name was to be Popular Socialist Vanguard. It would advocate: 1) nationalization of copper, nitrate, iron industries, electricity, railroads (all but the last largely U. S.-owned); 2) creation of a State-owned bank and merchant marine; 3) housing for Chile's underpaid workers. Having thus clarified a world-wide misunderstanding-all based on the meaning of one little word-the newly born Vanguardians...