Word: coppering
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...motormakers still had cause to boast. With pride they could point to the fact that their gargantuan industry devours 82% of the rubber, 55% of the plate glass, 15% of the iron & steel, 57% of the upholstery leather, 30% of the aluminum, 14% of the copper, 15% of the hardwood, 24% of the lead, 80% of the gasoline consumed in the U. S.; that it fills 3,080,000 freight cars a year; that it employs almost 5,000,000 workers...
...Copper. Many an effort has been made to stabilize the price of copper. Copper...
Exporters, Inc. was formed in 1926 to fix the price of copper in Europe, and for a long time U. S. producers seemed to have a gentleman's agreement on price. In copper as in other U. S. industries, however, anti-trust laws prohibit definite price agreements. Copper producers now are attempting to curtail production, but the price was back last week to 10? after its recent jump from 9? to 12? (TIME, Nov. 24). The world copper situation is complicated by potential African production which may soon overbalance U. S. curtailment. Tin. Attempts to curb tin production have...
...airport, that he had little knowledge of aeronautics. But Thomas Edison, like Leonardo da Vinci, attacked the problem of aerodynamics early in his inventive career. About 1880 he devised an airplane engine powered by nitroglycerin. A roll of ordinary ticker-tape, turned into guncotton, was fed between two copper rolls into the cylinder and exploded electrically. But when the engine itself exploded and injured an assistant, Edison abandoned the project. In 1910 he secured a patent for a helicopter type, said to embody a number of tetrahedral (box) kites to be whirled about a vertical axis...
...Valley") Smith, 30, was shot several times. One bullet struck his chin, entered his mouth, knocked out a tooth. When surgeons hunted the bullet, he explained: "I spit it out." Wire At Grand Rapids, Mich., Charles Garnett, Mike Eikelbery, and Everett Glazier were arrested for stealing 150 mi. of copper wire which they dismantled while the lines were charged with 144,000 volts. Near Middletown, N. Y. Fred Woods saw a deer drop dead while crossing a field, followed it, dropped dead by its side. Both had touched a broken high tension wire...