Word: coppering
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...spoiled child of Uncle Sam," a place of impossible conditions, where there are no resources to justify a permanent population. Only profitable resource in the territory, according to Mr. Christensen, is fishing along the southern coast. Alaskan coal- prime reason for building the railroad-is worthless. The few copper, quartz gold and placer mines will eventually be worked...
...anything worth less than $1.50. Business was at a virtual standstill. Hastily the Government closed every bank in Mexico, all silver coins were ordered turned in to the Government, the printing presses were set busy printing one-peso notes (27.78?), the mints began to stamp out new fractional copper coins. Mexico, like Europe after the War, was going to have to do business with shinplasters. President Cardenas rushed back to the capital from a tour of his realm. Roberto Lopez, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, flew to Washington to beg for mercy or at least for time to go into...
...Radiant Copper. Dr. Ernest Orlando Lawrence, 33, wears octagonal spectacles and harries the atom with an 85-ton electromagnet in a ramshackle old building on the University of California's campus. Dr. Lawrence and his associates have done the most intensive work in the U.S. on artificial radioactivity. Lately the young physicist succeeded in inducing radioactivity in sodium. Since common salt contains sodium, the prospect immediately arose of injecting harmless but radioactive saline solutions into the human body as a cancer remedy. Few weeks ago Dr. Lawrence was appointed a research consultant of Columbia University's Crocker Institute...
Last week Dr. Lawrence reported that, by whirling deutons (heavy hydrogen nuclei) between the poles of his magnet, he had induced radioactivity in copper, heaviest of the dozens of elements in which this behavior has been observed. In so doing he observed a curious effect which he could only interpret thus: The flying deuton, as if daunted by the massive copper nucleus and its powerful positive charge, split just outside it into a neutron and a proton having no charge to encumber it, the neutron slipped into the nucleus, leaving the proton outside...
...that John Winthrop the Younger, son of Massachusetts' second Governor, returned from a visit to England as the first Governor of Connecticut, with a commission from Lords Saye and Brook empowering him to develop the production of salt, iron, glass, potash, tar, black lead, saltpetre, medicines, copper, alum...