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...department-store friends. He chucked his vacation plans and made a deal: Reynolds would help the Mexican streamline his production, take exclusive distribution rights in exchange. While he was at it he also got another Mexican businessman to go into the mass production of a silver-plated zinc alloy safety razor to wholesale in the U.S. for 52?; apiece. Reynolds guessed that he could sell several hundred thousand of them in the razor-short...
...beat his Government swords into electric plowshares was typical. Many businessmen-in-service, sick of Washington and full of nostalgia for businesslike operations, have fled the capital for their old jobs. Fortnight ago WPB's Deputy Vice Chairman for Metals Howard Young resumed the presidency of American Zinc Lead and Smelting Co. Assistant WPB Steel Director Joseph L. Block has returned to the executive vice-presidency of Inland Steel Co. Others are shifting uneasily behind their desks as they shuffle the piles of paper from the In-box to the Outbox. More & more U.S. businessmen feel that...
...cleverest copy of the Great Seal of the United States that they had ever seen. He had made his almost perfect copy of the U.S. spread-eagle not once but 90 times, on a 10 x 18-inch sheet of cardboard. The sheet was photo-engraved into a zinc cut of the same size...
...turned to Bolivia, began to apply modern techniques to abandoned, worked-over tin mines. Since then he has branched into copper, zinc, silver, tungsten-a variety of mine holdings which eventually exceeded those of Simón Patiño. A few Bolivians welcomed Hochschild and his up-&-coming ways; others cursed him for stimulating the specialized mining economy which caused Bolivia's underpaid, tuberculous, ill-fed masses untold misery, and prevented diversification which might have made a healthier economy...
News for the Masses. Folk-artist Posada in fact practiced a kind of picture journalism. He worked most of his life as a salaried employe of a publishing house in Mexico City. His zinc engravings were printed on cheap colored paper sheets, sold throughout the Mexican countryside. Posada-illustrated broadsides, some with printed ballads (corridos), were often vended by street singers, mainly to peons who could not read. They described news events such as: "Sensational happening! Frightful murder and true example in Saltillo, the first day of the past month (Gentlemen, the criminal has already been shot...