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Several church groups have asked Continental Oil and Kennecott Copper to issue detailed reports on their strip-mining activities in Appalachia and in the American northern plains...
Investors have concluded lately that most major currencies will lose much of their purchasing power in the months ahead. The doubts have set off a worldwide stampede to buy tangible commodities of all kinds: copper, silver, sugar, even potatoes. Most of all, the nervous are buying gold, a mystical symbol of eternal value. The price of gold rocketed up to a record $163 an ounce in London last week, almost double the quote a year ago, and up $23.50 in less than a month (see chart...
...price of silver has more than doubled in the past year, to more than $5 per oz. Prices of new gold jewelry at Tiffany's have climbed 35% in the past year. Banks report that demand for pennies has doubled in recent weeks as the price of copper topped...
...dramatic success has been in the economy. In 1973 real growth surged ahead at 10%, compared with an annual average of less than 6% during the preceding decade. A large part of this growth has resulted from the fortuitous jump in world prices of commodities, such as sugar, lumber, copper and gold, exported by the Philippines. But Marcos' policies of encouraging foreign investment have also been a powerful spur to growth. He has lured American and Japanese businessmen to the islands by liberalizing monetary and credit policies and allowing foreign firms to repatriate all of their profits...
There was rarely any danger of boredom in Whistler's vicinity. He spent most of his 69 years as an expatriate in England and France working as hard on his bon mots as on his canvases and copper plates. It was entirely fitting that when his collected correspondence was published in 1890, it was entitled The Gentle Art of Making Enemies. Whistler was one of the most vengeful litigants since Shylock. "When I pay you six-and-eightpence, I pay you six-and-eightpence for law, not justice," he once told his solicitor, who had dared suggest that...