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...other step was taken by the Defense Materials Procurement Agency. It made a deal with the giant Anaconda Copper Co. to boost its output more than 30,000 tons a year by putting Nevada's Yerington mine into production. Chairman Cornelius Kelley will spend $33 million of Anaconda's money developing the property; for its part, DMPA agreed to buy any copper from the mine that Kelley cannot sell in the first six producing years, for 25½? a Ib. (v. the present ceiling price of 24½?), the first premium price deal for metals to be made...
...Collier's Fifth Avenue headquarters, the mysterious project was called "Operation Eggnog." The man in charge of it was Associate Editor Cornelius Ryan, who for nine months acted as cloak & daggerish as if he were blueprinting an atomic war. That was just what he was doing...
...January, Irish-born Cornelius Ryan, a 31-year-old former war correspondent and author, suggested to Publisher Edward Anthony an article on what would happen if the U.S. were occupied by Russia. It gave Anthony a bigger idea: Why not devote an issue to a third world war? Ryan went secretly to work (only a few Collier's staffers knew what was going on), traveling to Europe and around the U.S., collecting material, lining up writers. Pulitzer Prizewinner Robert E. Sherwood wrote the lead piece on history's "most unnecessary, most senseless and deadliest...
...Judge Cornelius J. Harrington (who was introduced to Harry Truman by a mutual friend), and Municipal Court Judge Joseph Jerome Drucker, nephew of loyal and ancient Congressman Adolph J. Sabath. The third nominee was Lawyer Joseph S. Perry, former Dupage County Democratic chairman-on Douglas' list, but only by courtesy. Actually, he had been put up by ex-Senator Scott Lucas...
...four Communist fugitives is one of the oddest specimens in the Communists' menagerie. Tall, intense Frederick Vanderbilt Field, 46, is the millionaire son of mil and the party's most dependable angel. His millionaires, great-great-grandfather was the profane steamboater and railroad builder, Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt. The Civil Rights Congress bail fund, of which Field is secretary, has handed over about $450,000 in bail money for the beleaguered Communists in the past three years. He is a registered foreign agent, as a lobbyist for Communist China. Congress cited him for contempt last year for refusing...