Word: ton
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Anaconda, however, refused to sell a share of its Chuquicamata and El Salvador mines. The government settled for one-fourth of the company's new Exotica mine, which next year is expected to add 112,500 tons to Anaconda's annual 407,000-ton production, and 49% of an exploration company. Unlike Kennecott, Anaconda depends on Chile for most (61%) of its production and half of its earnings. The company reports that its profits from Chile totaled $99 million last year, about a 17% return on its investment; the Chilean government, using different base figures, calculates that Anaconda...
...seemed to be of mayhem in the universities, we decided to do something other than riot," says Lauri Noreila, president of the student union at Helsinki's School of Economics. What he and his fellows did was organize a floating exhibition of Finnish products on a 10,000-ton ferry, then anchor it last fall beneath London's Tower Bridge. More than 100 firms participated in the "Finn-focus" exhibit, which produced $5,000,000 in export orders...
Cruising on a calm and brightly moonlit South China Sea last week during the naval exercise, the 16,000-ton Melbourne ripped into the U.S.S. Frank E. Evans, a 24-year-old, 2,200-ton American destroyer. Within five to six minutes, the bow of the bisected Evans sank in 5,500 feet of water; 74 of her 273-man crew were lost. Among the missing were three brothers, Gary, Gregory and Kelly Sage of Niobrara, Neb. Their deaths constituted the worst Navy family tragedy since the five Sullivan brothers perished aboard U.S.S. Juneau...
Humble Oil's executives, hoping to succeed where Explorer John Cabot failed, announced last week that they are fitting out,the 115,000-ton tanker Manhattan as an icebreaker for a pioneering-and perilous-test run through the long ice-choked Northwest Passage to the Arctic next month. Denver's King Resources Co., wagering that the Manhattan will make it, has drafted plans to build a deep-water port in Maine's Casco Bay. That port is even closer to the North Slope than Seattle is. No Alaskan oil is expected to be delivered...
...Developed affiliations with Veterans Administration facilities in the Bos- ton area, which will be available for doctoral and post-doctoral training in dentistry...