Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pull from Inflation. The current problem lies primarily in the growing U.S. appetite for foreign products. Total imports have climbed 22% this year, while exports have grown only 9%. About one-sixth, or $1 billion, of the import surge was caused by U.S. labor troubles. Copper imports, for example, doubled to $600 million during the first half of this year as a result of a 37-week miners' strike. The threat of an August steel strike brought a 59% jump in iron and steel imports. Most of the blame for increased imports, however, can be placed on the seemingly insaliable...
...uranium-oxide suppliers to the Atomic Energy Commission, operates Lucky Me mine in Wyoming. The company has a contract with the Navajo tribal council giving it an option to strip-mine rich coal deposits on the Navajo reservation in northwestern New Mexico. More recently, Utah obtained options on valuable copper deposits on Vancouver Island, British Columbia...
Anxious to populate and develop Siberia and determined to fend off Red Chinese incursions, Russia is turning to Japan for capital and technical assistance. Dazzled by all the timber, iron ore, copper, manganese, oil and diamonds so close across the Sea of Japan, the Japanese now refer happily to Siberia as "virgin soil...
...first trickle in what the Japanese hope will become a Siberian thaw. Russia is already proposing that Japan might like to lend another $140 million to build a pipeline from Siberia's Ohka oilfields to the sea and perhaps take part in a $1.2 billion program to develop copper mines near Lake Baikal. Japan, which has few raw materials itself and is forced to import oil from the Middle East and copper from Africa, is understandably interested in these and other ventures...
...coalition of unions to try to force the Campbell Soup Co. into company-wide bargaining [Aug. 23]. You state: "Behind the demand is the burgeoning drive by A.F.L.-C.I.O. Organizer Stephen Harris to duplicate company-wide contracts that he won from the Union Carbide Corp. and the copper industry." This statement is as far from the true facts of the situation as it could possibly be. In 1966 and 1967, the Industrial Union Department of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. led a coalition bargaining drive against Union Carbide Corp., and Mr. Stephen Harris was involved in this effort. Eleven plants were struck...