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...producers' would-be imitators can claim much success. An attempt by several Latin American countries to jack up world banana prices through a universal $1-per-box export tax failed because Ecuador felt that it could not afford to go along. A cartel of four copper-exporting countries agreed last November to try to force up prices by reducing shipments 10%. But demand and prices have continued to fall, and last week the copper countries decided to fight back by holding another 5% of their production off the market. The copper countries are now considering holding more of their...
...Dolgun spent years in the same vast concentration camp as Zoya. "She ended up in Dzhezkazgan, a hard-labor camp for political prisoners in Central Asia," Dolgun told TIME last week. "The women did the same killing work as the men, on heavy construction jobs and in the copper mines. The prisoners all knew Zoya's movies, and it was a shock when we heard that she had tried to hang herself with a stocking...
When Mr. Pots and Pans is not on one of his frequent buying trips to Europe, he patrols four floors of highly variegated merchandise. His cheapest item is a 5? cork, his most expensive a $500 copper pot suitable for an entire sheep. Between these terminals is a treasury of the familiar and exotic. Prosaic pepper mills and soup bowls huddle with sophisticated croissant cutters and the French Cuisinart Food Processor, a $160 Rube Goldberg contraption for slicing and pulverizing just about anything. No device, no matter how arcane or costly, sits around for long...
Grant's deficit is not the largest hi American business history-the Anaconda Co., for example, lost $356 million when Chile nationalized its copper mines in 1970, and Penn Central recorded a $560 million loss in 1971-but it is one of the biggest ever posted by a retailer...
Rothenberg thinks that the mine was built by Egypt's pharaohs of the 19th and 20th dynasties. If so, it could be the mysterious Atika, a fabled source of copper mentioned in ancient papyri. The Egyptians may well have borrowed the metallurgical techniques from the Midianites, a little-known people who dwelled in the area and are identified in Genesis as the first metalworkers. With the help of the Midianites, the pharaohs apparently ran the mine for some 150 years, until about 1250 B.C. Subsequently, the Egyptians pulled out of Canaan and the neighboring Sinai -perhaps, says Rothenberg, under...