Word: anacondas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...Anaconda Copper Mining Co., which had grown into the world's biggest copper producer from the "richest hill on earth," had no such intentions. Cornelius Francis Kelley, Anaconda's board chairman, knew that there was plenty of low-grade ore to bolster the company's high-grade operations ; the trick was to find a way of digging it cheaply enough to make...
...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...
Cried the anaconda to the rabbit it was swallowing: "Stop encircling...