Word: zinc
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Commodity prices are not the only problem, says the bank. Major world importers of the hemisphere's commodities -the U.S. (lead, zinc, petroleum) and Western Europe (sugar, beef) in particular-are lending a more sympathetic ear to the protectionist pleas of their own producers, establishing quotas or tightening tariff barriers to favor agriculture and mining at home. The Latin Americans themselves further hamper things by placing restrictive measures on exports in the misguided notion that they are encouraging local processors and manufacturers. Brazil sometimes sets quotas on cotton and sugar exports; Uruguay imposes a 20% surtax on export wool...
Another plan that should be under way soon is a blue-sky dream of William Zeckendorf's Webb & Knapp Inc.-made practical by cheap power from Bonneville Dam and Stratmat's smelting process-to retrieve iron, copper and zinc from waste copper slag cast off by copper companies. A Webb & Knapp subsidiary, in which Stratmat is to have a minority interest, plans to build a mill in Montana and buy slag from Anaconda Co. at 25? a ton. The slag heap contains iron, copper and zinc ores worth an estimated $1.4 billion. Zeckendorf even hopes to sell...
...grade that blast furnaces cannot handle them, conditions them for the second step. This is a Udy-designed electric smelting furnace that finishes the job. The slag from the electric furnace can be put through a series of similar furnaces to draw off other metals such as chrome, copper, zinc and manganese. Thus, for the first time, a smeltery can work iron ore over with the same thoroughness that an oil refinery uses to squeeze every last product out of crude...
...know about pending Canadian tariff revisions, Fleming's withdrawal of tax concessions for U.S. investors in Canada, and the probable recommendations of Canada's Royal Commission on Publications concerning the importation of U.S. magazines. Canada renewed a perennial request for removal of U.S. restrictions on lead and zinc imports and, pointing to Canada's imbalance of tourist trade with the U.S., asked that duty-free allowances permitted...
...stripped six inches of soil off a 2-sq.-mi. area, replaced it with soft turf and a specially constructed water sprinkling system. Buckets of bugs were carried away, and the entire site was sprayed with DDT. Into the Queen's two-bedroom tent went a white-lacquered zinc bathtub, hot-water plumbing, and a flush toilet-equipped with a red velvet seat cover for comfort in the early-morning chill. An airstrip was constructed; access roads from Katmandu, 160 miles away, were widened and improved. In high grass four miles from camp, workmen set up a "hunting ring...