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...steel strike, the Federal Reserve Board's industrial production index did. Some 100,000 workers were laid off in mines and railroads, and carloadings dropped to 532,304 cars, lowest for a comparable week in years. Last week the Steelworkers Union and others called a strike at Kennecott Copper Corp. and Magma Copper Co. that idled another 15,000 workers. As a result, industrial output declined 1% in July to 153% of the 1947-49 average, two points below the record June level of 155%. But activity in most other durable-goods industries increased, and output of nondurable goods...
From cheering Novosibirsk, Nixon moved on to Sverdlovsk, where the Bolsheviks shot Czar Nicholas II and his family in 1918, then drove deep into the Urals to visit a copper mine and Russia's largest tube and pipe plant. At every log-cabin village and dusty crossroads, hundreds of peasants gathered to wave and cheer Nixon-and they stayed on for hours to do the same for the caravan of reporters and U.S. officials strung out along the road behind...
...Industrial output rose 10%. v. an 8.5% drop in the last two years. Copper production, source of 30% of Chile's income...
METALS American Can 1.07 1.28 Revere Copper & Brass .79 1.99 National Lead 1.70 2.21 Alcoa .88 1.32 Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical...
...school students filled notebooks with the theory of computers as expounded by visiting Professor Norbert (Cybernetics) Wiener himself. At Northwestern's engineering labs in Evanston, 96 boys and girls studied why quicksand becomes quick, and found out the most economical way of sifting and smelting a pile of copper...