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Major purchases of stocks during the year included: J.I. Case, Seaboard Air Line Railway, Eastern Gas and Fuel, B.F. Goodrich, and Colgate-Palmolive-Peet. Largest individual holdings were in Standard Oil, General Electric, Christina Securities, International Paper, Insurance Company of North America, General Motors, Illinois Powers, and Kennecoit Copper...
...stuff brujas prescribe, including dried toads and bits of amber. And not all the clients of brujas are unlettered Indians. A U.S. woman living in Taxco went to a bruja recently to get something to cure her little granddaughter's chronic car sickness. The prescription: a copper coin plastered to the child's navel. According to the grandmother, the charm worked like a charm...
...general wanted a picture of himself with the Statue of Liberty as backdrop. The massed press photographers were glad to oblige. General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, impeccable from kepi to pigskin gloves, turned his hawklike profile to the lenses and pointed theatrically toward his country's copper gift...
...moving out of the city along the westbound Jasper highway, heading for the new Acheson oilfield, seven miles away. There a crowd gathered to relish a familiar but stirring sight. Alberta's newest oil well was blowing in wildly, gushing up 200 feet and spitting blobs of copper-black crude for half a mile around...
Rampaging wells and eager people are signs of the times in booming Alberta. All Canada has expanded amazingly since World War II; discoveries of iron ore, nickel, copper, uranium and titanium are cracking open a dozen new frontiers. But the biggest boom of all is in Alberta's oil, the most significant new find on the continent since Texas' Spindletop roared in, 50 years...