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Considered as a step toward hemispheric self-sufficiency, the rest of the tin deal was the rest of a fiasco. Patiño's companies are interlocked with the British-Dutch cartel, and he controls a smelter in Liverpool. His ore has always been smelted there, crossing the Atlantic twice before it gets to the U.S. After prolonged negotiations, Jesse Jones contracted with a Dutch firm to smelt Bolivian ore in Texas-with a Dutch East Indian ore admixture, which keeps U.S. tin technology tied to the Far East. To feed the Texas smelter he secured less than half...
...furnaces in Utah for Rocky Mountain coal and ore; electric furnaces near Bonneville Dam to use cheap Government power to convert the Utah pig and scrap iron into high-grade steel; a plant in Southern California to use electricity and natural gas (first time on a commercial scale) to smelt local ore; a plate mill near Los Angeles. He thinks he could complete this setup in twelve months, start producing 1,500,000 tons of steel a year, adding 2% to U.S. capacity...
...gorilla adventure-and worse-is logical enough in a universe "shaped exactly like a pint of beer, in which the nebulae were the ascending bubbles." This was the astronomical discovery of another young man "who was invariably spurned by the girls, not because he smelt at all bad, but because he happened to be as ugly as a monkey." Such Collier characters naturally gravitate into the company of demons, nymphs and other undesirable elements. They have only to approach a secondhand shop, zoo, greenhouse or midnight bridge when the fictitious rational world dissolves and Author Collier is at home among...
...straining to turn out 650,000 tons of steel annually. Republic's district boss, Charles L. Bransford, must worry over his low-grade ore reserves. Instead of envying T. C. I.'s higher-grade ore, he built a pilot mill, is experimenting to find better ways to smelt his resources...
...hears the orders. The general senses it when he gives them. So does Pablo, the pig-eyed, cunning guerrilla leader, when Jordan asks his help. So does Pilar, his big, ugly, wise, foul-mouthed wife. Pilar is a gypsy: she reads doom in Jordan's palm. She smelt death-to-come on the last dynamiter who went through, and he was killed. In one of the book's terrible, eloquent passages ("All right, Ingles. Learn. . . .") the woman with her ancient wisdom actually conveys in words what the smell of death-to-come is like...