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...issues, so simple when the row started, had become complex. When the Korean war began, the world price of tin shot up from less than 80? to almost $2 a Ib. Symington, the official U.S. tin buyer, refused to pay such a gouging price. Since the U.S. takes about half the world's tin, the price fell. 'Bolivian tin men cried ruin, demanded $1.50. Symington offered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE AMERICAS: Price of Tin | 1/14/1952 | See Source »

...stations, truck farmers and greenhouse operators. The results are still preliminary, but look good. Crop yields have been increased by 20% to 100%. No Krilium is for sale at present. When it does go on the market, in a year or so, it will cost "something under $2 per Ib." At this price only highly specialized farmers will be able to afford it. If applied to the top three inches of soil at the lowest claimed concentration (.02%), about 200 Ibs. will be needed to treat one acre. Monsanto believes that Krilium will be used first by truck farmers, home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Soil Saver | 1/7/1952 | See Source »

...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 by the Government since World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RAW MATERIALS: Copper: No. I Problem | 11/26/1951 | See Source »

...agreed to pay a premium price of 27½? for Chilean copper, which accounts for most U.S. imports. But the U.S. also had to agree to let Chile sell a big chunk of her copper in Europe and elsewhere, where the price has been as high as 50? a Ib. Result: imports have dropped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RAW MATERIALS: Copper: No. I Problem | 11/26/1951 | See Source »

...pork, which has long been selling under its retail ceilings. One big Midwest food chain cut prices on pork chops 10? a Ib. to 73?, planned another 10? cut this week. Elsewhere, housewives were loading up on the biggest pork bargains in months as a near-record pig crop (66,000 last week) came to market...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEAT: The Showdown | 11/19/1951 | See Source »

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