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...eight professional pallbearers hefted the 700-lb., hammered copper casket out of Lawrence Quinn's Funeral Home in Jersey City, a solemn voice called out to the pressing crowd: "Hats, men." Of the hundreds on the sidewalk, only four men were seen to lift their hats as a final gesture of respect toward Frank Hague, who died last week at 81. He was the last of the great machine bosses and the most absolute of them all. On a salary that never exceeded $8,500 a year during his eight terms as mayor of Jersey City, he came...
Costs & Cars. One peril of prosperity in 1956 will be inflation. Prices are already inching up. Industrial materials are climbing, with producers of steel, copper and aluminum complaining about higher costs, and probable increases of 4% to 5% during the first six months...
...House. In Washington. D.C., Charles Edward Beard was sentenced to a year in jail for stealing Government property after he drove up to a large city comfort station, climbed to the roof under cover of darkness, coolly hacked off 373 Ibs. of sheet copper, drove away...
Unfilled Orders. In almost every part of the country, there was tangible evidence of industrial and business activity to back up Howe's statistics. In the Quebec wilderness, 325 miles north of Montreal, Canadian National Railways is building a $35 million line to Chibougamau, a newly developed copper field. At Hamilton, Ont., the big Steel Co. of Canada, which has spent $100 million on new mills since 1950, reported with rueful pride that it was a full year behind on some orders -and promptly laid on an additional $70 million expansion program. Western oil production increased nearly one-third...
...nonmetallic element that is a byproduct of electrolytic refining of blister copper, used by the electronics industry to coat rectifiers and for photoelectric cells...