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With the coiling inclusiveness of a political anaconda, Winston Churchill threw a generous loop over Clement R. Attlee last week. The Prime Minister invited his No. i election opponent and the Labor Party's No. i leader to accompany him to the forthcoming Big Three conference (see INTERNATIONAL). Then he drew the loop tighter. Said Churchill: "We have in these last few years thought alike on the foreign situation." With the general election less than three weeks away, British voters could scarcely miss the point that on foreign policy there was little to choose between Churchill and Attlee...
Montana. The big-business "twins" that run Montana politics, Montana Power and Anaconda Copper, were behind able incumbent Republican Sam C. Ford, 61, first G.O.P. governor in 20 years. But hard-campaigning, up & coming, six-foot Democrat Leif Erickson, 38, with united labor support, had a chance...
Finally, Basic Magnesium was ousted. But it had netted a profit of $376,176 on the deal, "despite its demonstrated incompetence." Anaconda Copper was brought in. Under Anaconda, the plant got into capacity production, 112,000,000 lb. yearly. But the plant's future is dubious. Warned the Committee: "New sources of power will have to be obtained at low cost if the project is not to be written off at a loss after...
...stinging rebuke that would cost any company far more in good will than a mere $10,000. The defendants he had just sent to jail were motivated, he said, by "blind loyalty to a corporation that didn't seem to appreciate the loyalty it owed to the U.S. . . . Anaconda Wire & Cable Co. [was the] chief culprit...
...Controlled by Anaconda Copper, which owns 68% of the outstanding capital stock...