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...considerable ingenuity goes into the recovery and reuse of waste materials. Some industrial waste is saved and reprocessed at the plant itself; the rest comes through the scrap and salvage industry, which buys up wastes from plants, offices and homes. The copper in a skillet, for instance, may have an indefinite series of incarnations over a cycle of many years, moving from smelter to refinery to brass mill to the factory to housewife's kitchen to junk collector to a secondary refinery where it is smelted into ingots and sold back to the factory. Overall, only an estimated...
Frei's main bill, "Chileanizing" the copper industry, has passed the last legislative hurdle, and awaits only the signatures of some of the participating companies. Under the program, the government will acquire a 51% interest in the U.S.'s Braden Copper Co. and a 25% interest in two other new mining ventures, including one that will expand operations at Chuquicamata, which is already the world's largest open-pit copper mine. Ultimately, Chile hopes to double production by 1970 to 1,200,000 tons a year and bring in an additional $300 million in foreign exchange...
Civilized man, said Dr. Schroeder, ingests an excess of cadmium from tea and coffee, refined flour and polished rice, some phosphate-fertilized crops- and water pipes. Soft water, he declared, takes up cadmium, a contaminant in copper and galvanized pipes, far more readily than does hard water...
...barley water as warm-weather refreshers, upper-caste Indians serve them at wedding receptions, and Middle East businessmen offer them to visitors as an alternative to Turkish coffee. Europeans mix their whisky with ginger ale or lemon-lime. White Rhodesians have a fad on for brandy and Coke. Zambian copper-belt workers, who once paid threepence for a home-brewed raspberry drink, now pay sixpence for "sophisticated" sodas. Everywhere, increasing ownership of refrigerators has lifted soft-drink sales. In Hong Kong, U.S. brands hold 60% of a $13 million market against such competitors as Pearl River, an aerated bottled water...
...timber-cut in Mindanao as the members of Manila's power elite discuss their endeavors. Polished ilustrados in dark Italian suits and handsome women in bright mestiza dresses nod politely to aging Carmen Soriano and her 39-year-old son José Maria, heirs of the Soriano fortune (Cebu copper mines, Samar iron, Mindoro cattle and dairy, Mindanao mahogany and San Miguel beer). American businessmen from Esso and Caltex, Hawaiian Dole and General Foods, are prominent in the Manila Polo Club; the Phil-Am Life Insurance Co., with its filigreed, high-pillared headquarters in downtown Manila, symbolizes U.S. and Filipino cooperation...