1.   Americans could buy Whippets, Buicks, Fords and Cadillacs, each with great loads of copper tubes and tanks and wires.

2.   An enterprising man told the authorities that Mediterranean women love lipstick and the cosmetic was best sold in copper tubes.

3.   A long copper tube with a nozzle at the end snaked over the box, ready to broadcast odor.

4.   Copper tubes, wires and powder are used in products ranging from automobiles to plumbing fixtures, and consumption levels are closely tied to economic activity.

5.   Copper tubes, wires, and powder are used in products ranging from automobiles to plumbing fixtures, and consumption levels are closely tied to economic activity.

6.   In most cases, there will be shut-off valves with flexible chrome-plated copper tubes, the risers, running up to the faucets.

7.   The device was a copper tube with pinched ends and was filled with gunpowder, the letter explained.

8.   The copper tube was dripping water on the floor.

9.   Wolverine Tube Inc., which makes copper tubes for air conditioners and refrigerators, named Thomas Roller president and chief executive.

10.   Poongsan will take over an abandoned plant, installing equipment to produce small-diameter copper tubes for air conditioners beginning later this year, they said.