Word: picher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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TROUBLED MINING INDUSTRY will soon drop into deeper hole because U.S. Government will stop stockpiling lead, zinc. With zinc prices down to 10? a lb. v. 13½? three months ago, Southwest's Eagle-Picher Co. will lay off 1,100 workers by closing its lead and zinc mines in Oklahoma, Missouri, Kansas. Other big mine shutdowns are on their way in New Jersey, Nevada, California...
...when high-grade, low-cost ores made everyone richer every day in every way. Today the situation is almost exactly reversed. As against cheaper foreign production of richer ores. U.S. veins are becoming poorer while labor costs have soared to an average $18 a day. Last week, when Eagle-Picher Co. closed its zinc operations in Oklahoma and neighboring states, domestic miners chalked up another example of their deepening trouble. Other trouble spots...
Roger M. Kyes, Assistant Secretary of Defense, formerly associated with General Electric. Isadore H. Y. Muchnick, chairman of the Boston Schools Committee. Benjamin Rowland, professor of Fine Arts at Harvard. William G. Saltonstall, Headmaster of Exeter, Oliver S. Picher, Major-General in the U.S. Air Force, A. Frank Reel, labor lawyer who was on the defense council for Japan's General Yamoshito, and who later wrote a book defending the hanging of Yamoshito. Frederick R. Weed, Headmaster of Roxbury Latin...
...Boston; Juan Mario Rodriquez, Vegots, Colombia; David C. D. Rogers, Princeton, N. J.; John P. Rosenthal, New York; William Stroud, St. Louis; Juan Carlos Vollenweider. Buenos Aires, Argentius; John S. Whiting, Wayland; Charles M. Willet, Dedham; Reinald N. Wood, Marblehead; Ernest P. Young. Manchester, N. H.; and Oliver L. Picher. San Francisco. Undergraduate Manager...