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...American civilians and SAC airmen who thought they knew something about judo, Japan's "soft art," took a painful trouncing from some Hokkaido University students at Sapporo, Japan. George F. Geisenhoff, 200-lb. SAC strongman, was tossed out of the ring and broke his collarbone; Kenji Honda, 130-Ib. American of Japanese ancestry, was all but smothered by his opponent and wound up with several broken ribs...
...strike last summer by the Communist-dominated Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers cut the national supply by 80,000 tons. Meanwhile, the West European boom had turned England, France and West Germany into high-bidding competitors for the international copper supply. The price of copper, which stood at 12? a Ib. at the end of World War II, shot up to 43? on the official market. Last week the unofficial grey-market price of copper in the U.S. was up to as much as 54? a Ib. However. U.S. producers, fearful of pricing their product out of the market and inviting...
...about to stop buying uranium. Last week Defense Production Minister C. D. Howe cleared the air with a statement of the government's uranium policy: ¶ Until March 31, 1962, Ottawa will buy all acceptable uranium concentrates, i.e., 10% U208, at a maximum price of $7.25 per Ib. for the uranium content and will pay premium prices for uranium produced under government contract. ¶ No new premium-price contracts will be put into effect after April i, 1957. ¶ No uranium mine which has not proved its ore body by March 31, 1956, and its readiness to go into...
Barbecues & Banquets. Wasco's steers command prices of 1? to 1½? Ib. more than those at the Los Angeles stockyards...
When some Texas grocers complained earlier this year of price-slashing by Safeway Stores Inc., the Justice Department assigned five antitrust investigators to look into the chain's operations. The outcome: a federal grand jury in Fort Worth last week charged that Safeway's price cuts (10 Ib. bag of sugar: 69?) were an attempt to monopolize the retail grocery business in Texas and New Mexico cities...