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...tiny State Street office by Lawyer John Clarke Lee and his cousin, Boston Merchant George Higginson, Lee Higginson over the years financed the development of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe and other Western railroads, built several Boston fortunes by developing the fabulous Calumet & Hecla Copper Mine in Michigan. The firm helped put together General Electric in 1892, led the financing of the struggling General Motors...
...original SEC suit, filed in the spring of 1965, charged that 14 men had used advance knowledge of a copper ore strike in Timmons, Ont, to buy stock in Texas Gulf Sulphur. Lamont was initially said to be the only man not to have profited personally from the information; the original suit merely said that he had passed the information on to a friend, who had made large purchases for several banking clients. The suit was later amended, however, to charge that Lamont had bought securities for himself...
Luck played a part in the comeback. Vast shoals of anchovies offshore have turned Peru's once-struggling fishing industry into one that will earn upwards of $180 million in exports, mainly of fishmeal, this year. Also, the worldwide copper shortage, made more acute by growing U.S. demands for the Viet Nam war, should send Peru's mineral exports well beyond last year's record $309 million...
Also, Paper Bags. Then, there is all the action in the mines. Copper output has doubled since 1959, and Anaconda, American Smelting & Refining and Cerro Corp. are considering plans that could double it again by 1970. This would rank Peru with Chile and Zambia as world leaders in copper production. Even cautious old W. R. Grace & Co., which has been packing its bags in most Latin American countries, has announced a $50 million investment in papermaking and other projects over the next five years...
This week copper company representatives from Chile, Peru, Zambia and the Congo are meeting in Lubumbashi, formerly Elisabethville, to consider the situation. But despite the danger to copper, prospects for an early return to the old pegged prices are slim...