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...been prompted by half a dozen recent oil, gas and metal strikes, notably the spectacular copper, zinc and silver find by Texas Gulf Sulphur near Timmins. Ont. More than 1,000 prospectors have staked 8,000 claims, some as far as 65 miles from the strike site. Texas Gulf Sulphur will spend $20 million to develop its Timmins properties, and such Canadian firms as Noranda Mines, Hudson's Bay and Consolidated Mining together have raised their exploration budgets in the area by $10 million. International Nickel put 30 surveyors to work, some in helicopters, and even staked more than...
...such losses by aggressively seeking out new uses for frit. The material is now used on classroom chalkboards, automobile mufflers and jet-engine afterburners. Ferro also turns out frit-based golf-hole markers and road markers, is developing a fertilizer business in which it mixes frit with zinc, boron and molybdenum. Porcelain enamel "skin" sections are hanging on many a U.S. skyscraper's shiny exterior, and frit-coated luminescent walls and lightweight doors are being turned out for houses. Not too far distant, at least in President Marks' dreams, is a house with outside panels of frit...
...biggest and richest copper lodes in history near Timmins, Ont., 350 miles north of Toronto. Test borings so far indicate a find at Timmins of 25 million tons of ore, rich not only in very high-grade copper but in sizable quantities of silver and zinc as well. At the first rumor of the discovery, Texas Gulf stock on the New York Stock Exchange began rising, rocketed 14 points in ten days of trading to 41¼ by week's end. Mining stocks on the Toronto exchange joined in with their biggest speculative orgy since the uranium boom...
...such plastics as polyethylene, polystyrene and vinyl. Another $120 million will go to papermakers for cartons, paper dolls and business forms. Steelmen will get $60 million worth of business, textile spinners $50 million, and the remaining $40 million will be disbursed among producers of everything from lumber and zinc to musical movements and tiny electrical motors. In 1964 the makers of construction materials and machine tools will also reap big benefits from the toymakers. Planning big increases in their capital outlays, like most of U.S. business, the toymen in 1964 will spend $250 million to expand and modernize their plants...
...Mattel, Inc., the biggest toy company, will use more than 150,000 Ibs. of Saran filament for the hair of its bestselling and well-dressed Barbie Doll, another 5,000,000 midget phonograph records and needles-for its talking toys, as well as huge quantities of plastic, zinc and steel for its new line of bikes, tricycles and trucks; the line will have a battery-driven device called the VRROOM, which emits a roar like a motorcycle and is intended to catch every...