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Contributors to the original telescope and its housing ranged from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences to the Revere Copper Company. The lenses for the first telescope then called the Great Refractor, came from Munich in 1846 and 1847 and by June, 1847, the telescope was in use. A transit circle then came from London and the first $100,000 endowment--was received from the Phillips Fund shortly afterwards...
During certain illnesses, the amount of copper and other metals in the blood rises appreciably. This has been observed in cases of pregnancy for several years. But only recently Vallee and his associates found the same increase occurs in some schizophrenics and manic depressives, as well as in some cancer and tuberculosis patients...
...House of Commons last week, Tory Colonial Secretary Oliver Lyttelton announced: "There are massive economic reasons for federation ... A single port serves all three. There is a need for Nyasaland labor in Northern and Southern Rhodesia . . . Coal from Wankie in Southern Rhodesia is required for the copper mines of Northern Rhodesia...
...supplies of metals, manufacturers learned that the pinch will not be as tight as they had feared. Reason: the "stretch-out"in the arms program enabled DPA to reduce the additional 10% cut in metals which had been scheduled. Instead, steel will not be cut at all; copper and aluminum will be cut only 5% on the average. And even "less essential" producers (aluminum blinds, cigarette lighters, etc.) will now be allowed as high a rate of production as anybody else. Thus, many civilian-goods makers will still have enough materials to turn out almost 50% of their pre-Korea...
...Copper...