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...that the hobby, which often proved fatal, would be safe as well as fun. Eight years ago, the N.A.R. estimates, homemade rockets were killing or maiming one out of every seven kids and laymen attempting to mix fuel and fire a backyard bird. Explosive mixtures of sulphur and zinc dust blinded and burned dozens of people; lead pipes packed with match heads blew up like shrapnel in the inventors' faces...
...aluminum; until six years ago, iron-ore exports were forbidden because the government believed there was only enough to supply domestic needs for a generation. All that negative thinking has been swept away by recent discoveries of natural gas, bauxite, copper, manganese, silver, uranium, tin, nickel, zinc and lead. Coal exports have jumped from $26 million in 1962 to $68 million...
Australia has become the world's largest producer of lead, the third largest of zinc. It exported $377 million worth of minerals last year and expects to double the figure by 1970. Says an Australian Treasury survey: "No compendium of prospects as they can be seen now can comprehend all the mineral exports likely to be recorded in five or ten years' time...
...such test, the snooper successfully detected silver ore particles that scientists had "seeded" in the ground at Greenbelt, Md. In another test, near Mineral, Va., the snooper determined that natural deposits of silver in an old zinc-mining area were too small to exploit economically. Geological Survey Physicist Frank Senftle, who headed the group that developed the snooper, believes that commercial models can be available for use as early as this fall, at a cost of between $25,000 and $35,000 per unit...
There was much background to the SEC move. Last year the commission lodged charges against 13 officers, directors and key employees of Texas Gulf Sulphur Co. for taking profitable advantage of advance word about the discovery of a huge Ontario ore field of copper, lead, zinc and silver. Among those charged was Thomas S. Lament, now 67, a retired vice chairman of Morgan Guaranty Trust Co. and a director of Texas Gulf Sulphur...