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...July 25). To house Magma's workers. Builder Del Webb put house construction on a 29-day foundation-to-finish schedule, moved in ten new families daily. Working three shifts, seven days a week, some 2,500 construction workers fitted together a $43 million ore-crushing mill and smelter. Across the rugged hills more workers laid out a 4,200-ft. landing strip, a new highway, a 30-mile, $7,500,000 railroad to the Southern Pacific's spur at Hayden. Last week, six months ahead of schedule, the first trickle of molten copper came...
Grey Market. The U.S. has been using copper at the rate of 1,500,000 tons a year, importing about 20% of the total. But a 43-day 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...
QUIT-BUSINESS CAMPAIGN of the Eisenhower Administration is moving ahead. As its next step toward taking the Federal Government out of competition with private enterprise, the Administration is putting up for sale its $13.2 million Texas City, Texas tin smelter, built during World War II and still the biggest in the Western Hemisphere...
Invoking the 1954 Communist Control Act for the first time, Attorney General Brownell last week charged before the Subversive Activities Control Board that the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers is dominated by Communists. If the charge sticks, the Red-tainted union-now on strike in the copper industry-will lose its rights under the Labor-Management Relations Act. The Government hopes that the members will throw out their Red bosses...
...America's new 50-million-ton "rare earth" mine at Mountain Pass, Calif., a $28 million Hughes guided-missile plant and a Douglas Aircraft experimentation plant at Tucson, industry" new plants at aviation, Phoenix, electronics and a and brand-new, "smokeless $120 million Magma Copper mine, mill smelter and town at San Manuel, Ariz., to mine the newest and biggest proved deposit of copper ore in the U.S. (see color pictures...