Word: cons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Extracting copper from such low-grade ore is enormously expensive. To open his Nevada mine, "Con" Kelley had to buy a sulphur mine 60 miles away, to get sulphuric acid needed for the concentrating process. Because exploration is even more expensive, Kelley and others are now going through old diggings to get out the high-cost ore that had been bypassed. Anaconda alone is spending $27 million to tap 130 million tons of such ore in its famed Butte, Mont, properties and another $100 million to process low-grade ore in Chile...
...inclusion of an Axis casualty in the World War II plaque. The inscription under the category of the Divinity School lists two names, one of which reads "Adolf Sannwald (Enemy Casualty)." Apparently, when the Corporation approved the list of names, Sannwald's was not discussed individually, either pro or con...
Oklahoma's new law making women ligible for jury duty brought some sharp comment from quid-rolling ex-Governor 'Alfalfa Bill" Murray. The 81-year-old ather of the present governor, Johnston Murray, and president of the State Con-titutional Convention in 1906, croaked lis objections: "It isn't right to lock women up with men in a jury room and make hem stay all night together. They won't quit till they make it legal for women to go into men's toilets. That's what they'll be after next...
With the Korean war, Flotill became the biggest packager of C rations for U.S. troops (assembling food products made by scores of other factories). Tillie has developed another big sideline, canning 300,000 to 400,000 cases a year of beef stew, corned-beef hash, chili and chili con carne for Hormel. From the original cannery, Flotill has grown to three plants-two at Stockton, a third at Modesto-covering 67 acres, using more than 25 freight cars of tin cans daily, packaging 75,000 cases of 77 different seasonal items, employing 4,000 workers at peak season...
Common belief to the contrary not-withstanding, the Administrative Board is not the grim enemy of good clean fun. Nor does it believe that threats con produce responsible student behavior. Nevertheless, it has a responsibility to point out to student the fact that mass public disturbances in the Square are no longer tolerable. They belong in the age of the flying wedge, John the Orangeman and Bloody Monday, not of the trackless trolley. Expressions of innocent, boyish joie de vivre though they may be, they are a menace to life, limb and property, both of the public and of Harvard...