Word: aluminum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...burn them in its power plants in the ratio of one part trash to nine parts coal. By 1977 Union Electric will build several collection yards where the refuse will be transferred from private or municipal trucks to rail cars. At the power plants, recyclable materials (iron, steel, aluminum and glass) will be removed and the rest of the wastes burned. Antipollution devices will trap and treat soot and gases in the smokestacks...
With the oil, chemical, paper, steel, aluminum and copper industries leading the way, U.S. industry now plans capital investments of $112.7 billion this year. That would mark a 13% jump over 1973 spending, which in turn was 12.8% higher than in 1972. There have been no back-to-back years with gains that large since 1965-66. And the Government's estimate is actually on the conservative side. A McGraw-Hill survey conducted mostly among larger companies last month resulted in a prediction that capital spending in 1974 will rise...
...tapping its own natural gas fields. Coors manufactured all of the 2.46 billion beer cans that it used last year, and in 1970 became the first brewer to buy back used cans from consumers (at 10? per lb.) for recycling. When Bill Coors designed a two-piece aluminum beer can, the company sold the patent to major packaging firms rather than go big in the can-making business. Reason: that would have meant borrowing money, and in all its 100 years Coors has never borrowed a penny...
...either low-grade or relatively hard to get to, it is not now economically feasible to mine them. But the picture would change if the price of imported minerals became oppressively high. Though American bauxite reserves are limited, there is an abundance of other clays and ores from which aluminum could be produced-at increased cost. Rising foreign prices would also make it worthwhile to dig out less accessible mineral deposits and thus open up large new reserves of chromium, copper, iron ore and other materials. Proven American reserves of lead total 36 million tons, easily enough to last through...
SMOTHERED in aluminum foil like a baked potato or a TV dinner, it's a changed Woody Allen that the doctors unwrap and usher into the yea 2173 at the beginning of Sleeper. Allen has really written this picture--it's painstakingly mapped out--and most of the jokes, for better or worse, are inherent in the science fiction scenario of a post-holocaust future two hundred years from now. The same is true of the hero's new persona, which flows out of the scripted material like soup from a can, Allen sealed--maybe too tightly--in the perfect...