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...Galvin around San Francisco. He often regaled cocktail parties with fascinating tales of his past. Such as the time he bought a shipload of calcium compound in the Orient and made huge profits selling it to natives as a remedy for diarrhea. Or the time he cornered the Malayan tin market. Or the time he interviewed Mao Tse-tung as an adventuring reporter in China during...
...about. Bits of planking preserved under the cargo show that the ship was probably built of Syrian wood and in Syria. She must have touched at Cyprus, the ancient copper center, to pick up a ton of copper ingots, stamped with Cypro-Minoan signs. She also carried ingots of tin, probably from Syria, that have long since turned to white oxide. Packed in wicker baskets, are fragments of broken bronze tools, weapons and household utensils. Apparently the ship was a floating factory, turning copper, tin and bronze scrap into equipment for warriors, farmers and housewives of the Homeric...
...steel this year, steel customers are actually doing less hedge buying than before last year's contract talks. Industry sources estimate that hedging accounts for no more than 15% of all orders. Though the thriving automakers are prudently stockpiling heavily, most of the industrywide pickup reflects immediate need. Tin-plate demand is rising as the canning season approaches, and appliance makers need more steel because their sales are running 12% to 20% above last year's high levels. Builders also need more structural steel because of the rise in capital spending (see below...
Affirmative Corn. The fastest rising phenomenon in the business is a Tin Pan Alley octopus called Aldon Music Inc., which has 35 boys and girls busy night and day composing songs. Last year Aldon turned out 300 numbers that were eventually immortalized on records, most of them strongly teen feel. "After four years," says Vice President Emil La Viola, "we've achieved an Aldon feel, a groove that's fresh and easy, a personal feel. The songs are simple, and mostly they have a negative message." Writers who have the Aldon feel down pat can make...
...local handyman, the suspect tin the Boston area's latest strangling, was arrested yesterday by Cambridge police in an apartment house near Central Square...