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International's biggest producer is the Frood Mine near Sudbury, Ont., discovered by Prospector Thomas Frood, who sold his claim for $30,000. Deep beneath tall smelter chimneys and black slag mounds, its shafts bite 3,425 feet into the earth; from its honeycomb of stopes come 12,000 tons of nut-brown ore every working day. A ton of Frood ore contains 95 pounds of copper, 47 pounds of nickel, and the farther the shafts pierce toward the earth's core the richer the ore becomes...
...future city" is a large shopping center, with stores arrayed like the cells of a honeycomb fronting the interior of a huge hollow rectangle. A wide continuous ramp runs around this great courtyard from bottom...
...whole exhibit is Lucas Cranach's famed Venus und Amor, the property of the Nűrnberg National Museum. On this panel medieval Artist Cranach shows a slim Venus, draped in a diaphanous veil wagging a warning finger at a pug-nosed Cupid who has pulled a honeycomb from a tree, and suffered severe bee stings as a result. In the upper right hand corner Medievalist Cranach appended his moral: Dum Puer Alveola Furatur Mella Cupido, Furanti Digit um Cuspite Ficit Apis. Sic Etiam Nobis Brevis et Peritura Voluptas Quam Petimus Tristi Mixta Dolore Nocet.* Because of the retreat...
...four seasons of New York, Notes to Be Left in a Cornerstone. To the questioning spirit of the future the poet says that maps, photographs and statistics cannot describe the "different beast" of New York, the city that awakened in the autumn, when "the shops were slices of honeycomb full of honey" and when "the boys came from far places with cardboard suitcases." He describes the winters filled with memories of bad colds, of policemen with faces like blue meat, of "overcoatless men;" the brief spring, the hot summers when the poor lay out on fire-escapes "and the child...
...molten pyrex borosilicate glass, white hot at 1.500° C. Three doors in its flank opened for ladles. Nearby was the mold-a circular tank 2 ft. deep, 17 ft. across, composed of insulated silicate brick, its floor studded with circular and triangular bosses laid out in a honeycomb design. Heated to 1,000° C., the mold was topped by a beehive-shaped, three-doored covering. At 8 a. m. outside the plant a crowd of 4,000 had gathered. At 8:30 on the pouring floor quiet, pious Dr. George Vest McCauley, the company's physicist...