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From the U.S. he rounded up contributions of steel, from Australia steam pipes, from Canada floor tiles, from Southern Rhodesia copper for the spire, from New Zealand, Australia and Canada timber for the structure. In addition he raised $222,300 in donations which were added to $339,150 from Britain's War Damage Commission...
...Copper Belt. In Bethany, Okla., Jerry Alan Porter, 14, "needed some money for vacation," so he picked up $230 in bills at the bank in exchange for his long-saved 23,000 pennies...
...materials were certainly simple enough-a piece of baling wire, a razor blade, some copper foil. But, explained a distinguished M.I.T. physicist one day last week, they were just about all that any schoolboy would need to build himself a device that could measure the amount of silver deposited in electroplating. In another room in M.I.T.'s sprawling Building 2, a colleague toyed with a tray of marbles to demonstrate molecular action. Near by, another scientist was making a telescope out of cheap lenses, curtain rings, a cardboard cylinder, and some pieces of hose from a truck radiator...
...immediate, causes of the setback were three sharp economic blows. First, the worst drought in 87 years parched the fertile south, forcing Chile to spend hard cash for foreign wheat. Then unseasonal rains flooded the North. Worst of all, copper-the government's largest revenue source-plummeted from 55? a Ib. to 27?, and with every 1? drop the government lost $6,300,000 in taxes...
...pardonably proud of the Dickensian way he had come; he had read David Copper field 101 times. The son of Scotch-Irish immigrants, Weir quit school at 15 to support his widowed mother, worked as a $3-a-week office boy for a Pittsburgh wire company, later said he did "not consider it a handicap for a boy in his teens to have to go to work. Being forced to earn one's living strengthens character, equips for bigger battles." By 1905 Weir was manager of a U.S. Steel Corp. plant; at 30 he bought a wheezing West Virginia...