41.   The U.S. economy remains healthy, boding well for copper demand, because the metal is widely used by the construction industry and manufacturers.

42.   They can use metal that bends more easily.

43.   They say their tastes reflect the influence of modernist masters like Eileen Gray, Pierre Chareau and Jean Prouve, who used metal in furniture designs.

44.   They planned to use the metal to cover another house.

45.   Try the fact that professional baseball players swing wooden bats while the college guys use metal.

46.   Tumbling currencies and plunging stock markets in Asia are reducing purchasing power in the region, curtailing demand for products which use metal such as cars and refrigerators.

47.   Wall Street dealers also use borrowed metal in doing more complicated hedging for producers.

48.   A union locked out at Kaiser Aluminum Corp. for more than a year is urging Boeing Co. to quit using Kaiser metals in its airplanes.

49.   Both metals are used heavily in industry.

50.   Export documents said the metal would be used commercially in mining explosives.