Word: spills
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Today copper is 12? a lb., not 16?. Yet the Morenci ores, though low-grade, will still yield a profit. When production starts, nine 125-ton electric locomotives will haul 75,000 tons of rock from the pit each day, dump 50,000 tons of waste into the canyons, spill the rest into ore bins. Each ton of ore will yield 21 lb. of copper-a daily smelter production of around 260 tons...
Then he talked, smoothly, soothingly. The newsmen's hackles sank. He explained away one irritation after another. But with it in his power to spill the news that the country was eager for, he told nothing. Names of ships and dates were out, he said. He would not even say how long or how often he had conferred with Churchill. All he could and would say was that he had been aboard the cruiser Augusta and Churchill aboard H.M.S. Prince of Wales. The only scene on which he was willing to dwell was the Sunday morning church service held...
...SPILL THE JACKPOT - A. A. Fair -Morrow ($2). How to milk a slot machine is one of the valuable tips herein offered by Bertha Cool and Donald Lam, hired not to find a vanished bride. But they find her after the No. 1 Milker's sidekick is murdered...
Ames took an unfortunate spill in the downhill at Hanover which cost him one of the top places, but with luck he should figure well against MacLane of Dartmouth and Townsend and Clark of New Hampshire. Ferner is fully recovered from his two broken ribs and ought to be among the first finishers in his three events...
Mortal fear of the U. S. armed services, particularly the Navy, is uncontrolled publicity. They also fear that given a free rein, reporters, radio commentators and photographers are likely now & then to spill secrets that the Axis powers would dearly like to know...