Word: smelter
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...figures are added up." Before he left Rio Baby hoped that $1,000,000 worth of new U.S. equipment would reach his Sāo Paulo brassworks, and that $2,000,000 would come through from Aluminium Ltd., of Canada. With the money he plans to open an aluminum smelter in Minas Gerais...
...operations were also turning sour. After a $9,000,000 profit in the last fiscal year, RFC expects to lose $8,000,000 this year on the tin smelter it is operating in Texas. Low-priced tin from abroad is cutting into its market. Senators, deciding that it was high time to look into RFC's operations, last week appropriated...
...buildings, inaugurated cattle shows, addressed miners' rallies. Wherever he went he told his audiences that the atmosphere in Santiago was enough to choke him, that he had fled to the provinces to collect support against the vile politicos plotting his overthrow. Flying to Copiapo to visit a copper smelter, he said: "I must be a gypsy traveling from town to town! They are plotting against me." At a banquet of Talca farmers he cried: "I haven't come in a peaceful mood but in one of war. I will kill or be killed...
Gilfillan has been getting a kick out of a bewildering mishmash of things since he completed his major in economics at Stanford University in 1912. He started out with a smelter (one employee, a chemist), but when platinum was found in Oregon in 1913 he began using it for contact points for automobile magnetos. World War I found him turning out parts for Jenny trainer-planes, but by 1923 he was one of the nation's first five radio manufacturers. A competitor brought out a vastly improved set and overnight, says Gilfillan cheerfully, "I found I was obsolete...
...years ago, a bronze smelter named Bruno Bearzi set out to prove that there was. Instead of scraping the doors, as others had tried, he mixed a special solvent to wash away the dirt and corrosion of centuries. Last week, while the Baptistery choir sang and long trumpets blared, the curtains over the doors fell away. At the sight, women fell to their knees; men wept. After all the years, Ghiberti's doors glistened and gleamed once more as he had made them...