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...first major scandal to besmirch a big-time war producer hit the headlines just over a year ago (TIME, Jan. 4, 1943). In Fort Wayne, Ind., and Pawtucket, R.I., the Anaconda Wire & Cable Co.* was indicted for deliberately delivering to Russia and to the U.S. Army Signal Corps equipment dangerously below standard. Last June the Fort Wayne case wound up with the maximum fine ($10,000 and costs) for Anaconda Wire, lesser fines for five officials and suspended jail sentences for three of them...
Shutdown. But Allied victories in North Africa and Sicily brought death to Mouat. Chrome could be shipped again more cheaply than Mouat could mill it. The mill closed down. Workers wandered off to work in Butte's copper mines. The Anaconda men who operated Mouat for the Government went back to their old jobs. All that was left in Mouat, three months after production began, were guards, maintenance men and their families, an occasional bear nosing through empty garbage cans, and old Bill Mouat and his wife...
Married. Lele von Harrenreich Daly, marrying widow of Anaconda copper-rich Marcus Daly, her second husband; and Richard Franklin Ford, 46, balding son of the late Standard Oilman Harry Smith Ford; she for the fifth time, he for the first; in Upper Nyack...
Biggest bolt ever recorded: a flaring snapper which hit the 585-ft. smelter stack of the Anaconda Copper Mining Co. at Butte, Mont., in the summer of 1941. Its current totaled more than 160,000 amperes; its estimated pressure exceeded 15,000,000 volts. (Ordinary home circuit: 110 volts...
...clearer proof of the terrible responsibility which sits on the shoulders of U.S. management could be had than was given last week in the shocking case of Anaconda Wire & Cable Co. From a grand jury sitting in Fort Wayne, Ind., came a blistering indictment charging the company and the officials of its Marion, Ind. plant with faking on Government tests for wire and cable, and. with transferring inspection labels from tested to untested materials with a view to defrauding the Government. Material already sold to Russia, it was reported, has proven defective; material sold to the U.S. Army...