Word: copperizing
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...COPPER PRICES have jumped to 40? a lb.. the highest level in the U.S. since 1872. With the exception of Kennecott Copper, which boosted the price of Chilean metal only, the big companies (Anaconda, Phelps Dodge, and American Smelting & Refining) hiked prices of copper for the third time this year, for an overall 10?-a-lb. increase since January. Reasons: 1) a 15½? wage boost given 35,000 U.S. copper workers after a 43-day strike, 2) a general increase in world copper demand...
...back still more by the Office of Defense Mobilization, thus slowing the rapid pace of defense-industry expansion. ODM has ended 19 categories of fast write-offs (asbestos, lead, tungsten, etc.) as no longer essential, indefinitely suspended 38 others (commercial aircraft, iron ore, etc.) leaving only 20 (copper, aluminum, atomic energy, etc.) of the original 225 expansion goals still in effect. New cutbacks will either cancel or postpone some 900 applications from U.S. business for $9.3 billion worth of fast write-offs...
...indeed a sad commentary on the future of federal buildings if their design is to be dictated by the Washington lobbies of building-materials trades. Imagine the final structure-a composite of Indiana limestone, California redwood, Vermont marble, Montana copper, Oregon Douglas fir and Rhode Island brick. Add one flight of New Hampshire granite steps so that the whole may be recognized as "monumental...
...years the copper-hued tsurigane (hanging bell) of Tokyo's Nishi-arai Dai-shi Temple rang out over the city, its tone as rich as a mighty organ. When the temple survived the Tokyo earthquake of 1923, a superstition arose that the tsurigane was imperishable. Then, on an autumn day in 1943, a drab-colored Japanese army truck carted the half-ton tsurigane away to be melted down, with thousands of other Buddhist temple bells, into war scrap. The bell disappeared from sight, but its memory lingered...
...when one of its invading conquerors decided to make it a place of splendor. The Mongol Emperor Kublai, grandson of Genghis Khan, ordered the building of Green Mount, a hill that was dotted with evergreens brought from far and wide by imperial elephants, paved with a layer of green copper ore and topped by a green pavilion. Marco Polo reported in wonderment: "The great Khan caused all this to be made for the comfort of his spirit...