Word: zinc
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...considerable stability of prices does not, however, mean that some prices have not risen enough to be felt -or fallen enough to be appreciated. The prices of industrial raw materials, often forerunners of more general price movements, have climbed 14% in a year. Tin and zinc prices have been edging up, and a worldwide jump in copper prices two weeks ago brought immediate markups in copper and brass products; last week aluminum producers lifted prices on a broad range of products. Treasury Secretary Henry H. Fowler believes that if this trend accelerates "we may have some problems," but that...
...whispered tips to friends, a "false and misleading" press release and some substantial paper fortunes. The SEC chronology: On Nov. 10, 1963, Texas Gulf geologists, headed by Kenneth Darke, were drilling on a claim near Timmins when Darke pulled out an impressive core sample of high-grade copper and zinc-so impressive that he hiked ten miles in the snow to reach his Jeep, then drove into town to call company officials. They notified President Stephens immediately, told the geologists to keep in daily touch. The company officials who got the news then swore themselves to secrecy. They had trees...
According to the SEC's suit, the 12 other men first knew of the rich deposits of zinc and copper near Timmins, Ont. as early as Nov. 12, 1962. Acting on this information, these men bought Texas Gulf stock, the SEC alleged...
...Incas and conquistadores mined mainly gold and silver. Now Peru produces everything from antimony to zinc, and the U.S. companies that do the bulk of the mining are in the mood to expand. Marcona Mining Co. plans to triple the capacity of its $20 million iron-ore pelletizing plant on Peru's southern coast; Southern Peru Copper Corp. is investing $16 million for improvements; and the king of the mountain, Cerro de Pasco Corp., has just earmarked $18 million to expand its $270 million mining complex. Next month General Motors will open a $5,000,000 assembly plant outside...
...list of exceptions included machine tools, electrical equipment, trucks, buses and even nuclear reactors-and compared poorly with the U.S. list which totaled only 8% of dutiable imports. Britain named coal, lead and zinc, plastic products and many cotton textiles in a list that covered 5% of its imports. Austria, Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Switzerland offered to slice all their tariffs in half if other nations reciprocate. And a delegate from Czechoslovakia showed up as the only Communist to offer a number of concessions that would align his country with GATT to a limited extent, thus demonstrating the shifting economic...