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...elected, Allende promises to organize all campesinos into unions, nationalize much of Chilean agriculture, plus all foreign commerce, private banks, public utilities, iron ore and nitrate mines and, of course, the U.S.-owned copper mines producing 11% of the world's copper. "We will bring the defeat forever of the oligarchy with a revolution within the law," he cries. Allende vaguely guarantees work and education for all, "massive" housing programs, and medical care for each and every worker. "Chile," he insists, "is a nation quite capable of sound development. But we are strangled by U.S. imperialism...
...Ominous. For the price watchers, there have already been a few disturbing signs. In its latest survey, the National Association of Purchasing Agents found more prices going up than down. The prices of such basic metals as aluminum, copper and tin have risen. Scrap steel, electric motors and corrugated paper cartons are all more expensive now than a few months ago. Last week the major U.S. tire companies agreed that there should be an increase in the price of replacement tires - perhaps by 3% - to cover wage and benefit hikes won by workers...
When a rich lode of copper was discovered at Timmins in Ontario last April, the news set off a wild rush of speculation in Canadian mining stocks. As prospectors staked out some 8,000 claims in the Timmins area, penny stocks became dollar stocks on the Toronto Exchange, and paper fortunes piled up almost overnight. Though most of the glory and the proven reserves belong to the lode's Yank discoverer, Texas Gulf Sulphur, Canadians were particularly pleased when one of their own companies seemed on the verge of its own strike. It was only a small company with...
...trade name contracted from "corrosion-tensile." It differs from plain carbon steel in its high copper content...
JOHNSON'S WAX. In the copper-colored clam suspended over a reflecting pool is a short film of surpassing excellence. To Be Alive! sets off on a breathless safari to explore the joys of human experience. The triple-screen montage compiled by Alexander Hammid and Francis Thompson is fast and fresh...