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...when the biggest unit in the heaviest of heavy industries can earn a steady profit, the other 60% of steelmakers are prosperous. Big Steel's operations are generally lower than the average for the industry as a whole...
...executives take so seriously that they seldom fail to attend in person-was unanimously conceded to have been the best in six years. Rising demand from the automobile industry lofted steel operations in less than a month from about 30% of capacity to 47%, a profitable basis for the heaviest of heavy industries...
Some of the heaviest of smokers, during the experiments, occasionally grew deathly sick, at times fainted. Drs. Wright and Moffat reasoned that ordinarily those smokers took only a few puffs of a cigaret. before throwing it away, whereas in the experiments, they continued smoking until almost all the cigaret was gone. Concluded Drs. Wright and Moffat...
Nine-cent copper was preceded by the broadest buying in months (see p. 56). Cocoa trading (5½? per Ib.) was the heaviest of the year. Hides were strong, and sugar hit a four-year high at 1.88? per pound for May futures. Wool was inactive at 90? per Ib. Silver trading has slowed to a practical standstill since announcement of a proposed 50% tax on all profits derived from sales of bullion to the Government, and the price has hung around 45? per ounce. Side by side with climbing commodity prices this spring has been an expanding public interest...
...elements Professor Fermi played with last spring was uranium. Uranium, discovered in 1789, is the mother stuff of radium, and the heaviest element on earth (twice as heavy as tin). Astronomers believe that elements heavier than uranium must exist in the interior of the sun. Geologists admit that perhaps near the core of the earth may be something heavier than uranium. But there certainly has been none anywhere near the earth's surface where man can lay his hands on it-until possibly last week...