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...That they did. Swiftly, yet with infinite care, the rescuers dug toward the entombed men, both sides shouting happy obscenities. A burr-tongued Scotsman yelled through the pipe, got the reply: "Take the marbles out of your mouth and talk English." The rescue team shoved a copper tube through the steel pipe, poured in water, hot coffee, then soup, while a mine doctor shouted instructions to take one swallow, count 500, take another...
...copper output was raised 36%, with Kennecott mines going on a seven-day week to meet the growing recovery demand and offset the shortage caused by strikes in U.S., Rhodesia, Canada. The price rose to a 20-month high of 31.3? on the London market...
...projects. Larkins has kept the company small and flexible by making only the controls, subcontracting the work of making the machines to other companies. Some sell for as little as $8,500, range as high as $200,000. Larkins is constantly taking on new jobs. When the Portland (Me.) Copper & Tank Works needed a machine that would rapidly drill 160 evenly spaced holes in different parts, yet assure their exact alignment in the afterburner of a General Electric J-79 jet engine, the company called on Elox. They worked out a machine, an eight-headed monster that can quickly...
...most adventurous big-money backer modern art has ever known was the late Solomon R. Guggenheim, multi millionaire mining magnate (Alaskan copper, Chilean nitrate, Bolivian tin) who late in life switched from collecting traditional Dutch masters to avant-garde art under the tutelage of his good friend and mentor, Baroness Hilla Rebay von Ehrenwiesen, set up Manhattan's Museum of Non-Objective Painting. Two years ago his nephew, Harry F. Guggenheim, announced a biennial, round-the-world search for new paintings, established a purse of $10,000 for first prize...
...third quarter often showed a sharp increase over the second quarter, when the recession bottomed out. Aluminum Co. of America earned $13.3 million in the third quarter, up from $8.0 million in the second; St. Joseph Lead earned $405,055, up from a $209,935 deficit; and Kennecott Copper $14.8 million, up from $11.3 million...