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...this the anticipated turn in copper prices? Copper analysts think not-at least not yet. The last ½? hike at custom smelters, in December, lasted only three weeks when the price dropped back, subsequently fell 2? more. Demand is still sluggish at the 25?-a-lb. level asked by major domestic producers, and Western Congressmen are still talking about a sick industry and pressing for a 4?-a-lb. tariff, placing the "peril point" where the tariff would go into effect at 30? (TIME, Feb. 10). While producers feel that the users' inventory liquidation is about over, higher copper...
Cille alone of the family has the strength to break out of the shell, but she is marked by its color and shape. The story of growing up and twisting free is outstandingly well told by Novelist Feibleman. The book's most noticeable fault is a sluggish pace, but while the narrative occasionally lacks interest, the characters do not; if the novel lacks the spare silhouette of art, it has, abundantly, the lumpish shape of life...
According to Dr. Schatz, the dinosaurs were sluggish beasts whose metabolism (vital chemical processes) was so slow that they could keep their vast bodies alive without a great deal of food. In their age, he thinks, the earth's atmosphere did not contain so much oxygen as it does today. The dominant plants were mostly gymnosperms (conifers, ginkgoes, etc.) that did not excrete so much oxygen as modern plants...
...most often-quoted indexes, is also open to criticism. Designed to wrap up all the statistics in one package it comes out only every quarter, "thus ' often reflects where the U.S. economy has been instead of where it is. Says a Chicago banker: "It's a sluggish graph line. When you get a rapidly developing situation, as we have now a lag can be murderous...
Under the heading "A Baby Is Born," there is an excellent description of the Shippingport reactor in which, however, the following expression occurs: "The nation's sluggish atomic energy program will show its first practical results." Four atomic power plants have been completed this year and are delivering civilian power; the Shippingport plant will be No. 5. One of these plants has been financed entirely by private capital, and seven other full-scale plants likewise are scheduled to be built by private capital without any direct Government financial contribution. Fifteen other atomic power plants, for civilian use, are presently...