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...Aluminum Co. of America. 2. Anaconda Copper. 3. Standard Oil Co. (N.J.) 4. The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. 5. U.S. Steel...
...story got around and the label stuck. In their passionately partisan study of Pigs: From Cave to Corn Belt, Authors Charles Wayland Towne (retired publicity director for Anaconda Copper) and Edward Norris Wentworth (director of Armour's Livestock Bureau) make it clear that a pork packer as Uncle Sam's prototype is not too outlandish an idea. "More than any other commodity," say the authors, "pork implemented American retaliation against [British] tyranny in colonial days, and incidentally initiated the great international commerce that has characterized . . . modern [U.S.] culture." By 1850, "Porkopolis" (Cincinnati) had become the greatest pork-packing...
...Anaconda, largest of the two U.S. companies that together own 96% of Chile's mines, announced a 30% cutback, laid off 2,615 workers. Higher-cost Chilean-owned mines had already shut down or soon would. That would add several thousand more to the unemployment rolls. Meanwhile, in the U.S., the price drop brought cries from copper-state Congressmen for revival of the prewar tariff on U.S. copper imports. If it were reimposed, Chile would be shut from any big share of the U.S. market...
...Pure in Heart. Chile was already attracting U.S. investment. Last fortnight the Chilean government announced that U.S. firms were scheduled to put up $135 million for Chilean industries. Five million would be spent on a plant for manufacturing thread. Anaconda Copper had begun to spend a whopping $130 million-the largest single investment in Chile's history -on a new copper extraction process...
...housing project was expanding it; others were plugging a new $2,000,000 hospital and recreation center. The first $100 housing contribution came from Local No. 1, International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers. Said Union President Oscar Hill, whose local had fought many a bitter fight against Anaconda: "The future of Butte and the security of its working people is established...