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...Hamilton set for it in 1792-but miners complain that the sum is too low to pay for the slow, costly process of digging and refining it. Because of this economic disparity, the U.S. has only four important silver mines in operation, gets most of its supply as a byproduct of other metals. Last year the U.S. mined only one-ninth as much as the 323 million ounces of silver that it consumed, made up the difference by dipping into the Treasury's huge but rapidly dwindling hoard, which now stands at 1.2 billion ounces...
Psychiatrists have delved for years into the psyche of the alcoholic in an attempt to understand what drives him to drink. But rarely have doctors investigated the unlovely but all too frequent byproduct of alcoholism - wife beating...
Paddling Through Animals. Dreamer-up of all this zoological ingenuity is North America's No. 1 architect to the animal world, Robert Everly, 58, of Winnetka, Ill. Everly got into zoo designing ten years ago as a byproduct of planning recreation areas, and has traveled all over the world studying old zoos and planning new ones...
That was his passport to the comic strips, and no man ever stayed longer or showed more zany inventiveness. The Rube Goldberg machines, a byproduct of his engineering background, made him rich and world-famous. All his designs were models of ludicrous ingenuity. In his automatic stamp-licker, a dwarf robot overturned a can of ants onto a page of postage stamps, gum side up; then they were licked up by an anteater that had been starved for three days...
Later Robbins observed with satisfaction that despite the controversy the report has raised, the "general principle and goal of expansion has been accepted." A useful byproduct of the report, he said, was the interest it aroused in advanced study...