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...tons of non-ferrous metals (aluminum, brass, other copper products), 16,600 tons of critical ferro-alloys...
...John Kusek, whose alleged corpse had been identified by his wife and buried, turned up alive, explained that he had gone to the coroner's office when he heard rumors of his death, was kept waiting too long, had to get back underground to his job in the copper mines...
Bigwigs of these corporations live in the far corners of the earth, well beyond the Biddle reach. So he had to content himself with individual charges against seven officials or stockholders near at hand in Manhattan, including Solomon R. Guggenheim, aged (84) copper magnate and art collector, and Clendenin J. Ryan, lieutenant commander in the Navy and grandson of the late Thomas Fortune Ryan...
Last week, at a Manhattan show, General Electric showed how to supply the demand: a ''Copper Man" so cunningly contrived that it gets hot & cold just like a human being. This copperplated robot has a network of electric wires which, like a human being's blood system, keeps its skin at body temperature. Its life-size frame, painted black, radiates the equivalent of body heat, and the temperature of various parts of its body can be regulated to duplicate any human condition; e.g., cold feet...
...Wright Field, where one model is already at work, the robot sits in a cold chamber wearing test garments. Researchers, in a warm adjoining room, read its reactions by means of instruments. With the Copper Man as a guinea pig, they have developed lightweight, electrically warmed suits in which a human being can be comfortable at temperatures ranging from 60° below zero to 60° above...