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...much confidence so far. Though Senegal was the first territory to be colonized, its economy still depends mostly on peanuts-a crop that gradually exhausts the soil. Mauritania, which has only four towns of 3,000 people or more, is a vast desert whose rich deposits of iron and copper ore are still to be exploited. The Upper Volta has as many livestock as people, and its workers must migrate from the territory each year to find jobs. Niger, the largest territory, and Dahomey, the smallest, barely manage to survive...
...technician from Yale, taking a summer course in music, lived up to his fame for facile improvisation. Every time that something went wrong, the cry of "Mc Goo, fix it" went up. And he did. He manufactured a stage plug out of a piece of wood and scraps of copper wire, and he managed to rewire half the Harvard Union in an afternoon...
Kennecott Copper...
...Spurred on by a hike in steel prices (see below), Aluminum Co. of America led other major producers in raising the price of basic aluminum pig 7/10? per lb., to 24.7?. Reflecting lively European demand for copper, custom smelters hiked the price of refined copper...
...week's end shares of aluminum and copper helped lead the stock market to a new high for the year on the strength of price rises. The Dow-Jones industrial average closed the week at 505.43, highest since Aug. 1, 1957, after the market turned over 18,760,460 shares for the heaviest week of trading since last October...