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...sprang into position. In a series of maneuvers, Mariner's ten tiny nitrogen jets swiveled the spacecraft until its long axis pointed at the sun. So positioned, the solar panels could absorb the sun's energy, power the spacecraft's electrical system without draining its silver-zinc battery...
...Wall Street. To raise working capital in a business where inventories are high and accounts receivable often precariously higher, Schwartz has brought off some imaginative deals. Two years ago, Jonathan Logan merged with Montana's moribund Butte Copper & Zinc Co., took over its assets, earned $2,700,000 after taxes. Through Butte, Jonathan Logan got a listing on the New York Exchange (current trading symbol: JOL), became the first ladies' ready-to-wear maker to make the Big Board. The highly competitive garment business had been suspicious of "going public" because that requires a company to publish intimate...
...There were several threatening factors. Protectionism is moribund as a national issue, but there were still plenty of businessmen-from almond growers to zinc producers-who were agitating against the bill. President Kennedy has presented a good many politically shaped bills to Congress-and has condemned, in political terms, those Congressmen who have not gone along with...
...LEAD AND ZINC are low-priority items (90% of U.S. needs are supplied from the U.S. and adjacent Canada and Mexico) that reached their stockpile objective in 1954. Yet the Eisenhower Administration ordered the Government to purchase an additional 760,000 tons at prices above the market-which cost some $200 million-and made the purchases without the customary competitive bidding. The purpose of the purchases, testified Felix E. Wormser, former Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Mineral Resources, was not to hoard critical and scarce materials-the goal of the stockpiling program-but to shore up production and prices...
...agreed to sell MiVida and itc mill to New York's Atlas Corp. for $12.8 million. Steen sold for capital gains "because it was the only way I could keep anything." Steen now operates two big Nevada cattle ranches, has branched out into other kinds of mining (lead, zinc, silver, gold and mercury), recently bought a New Mexico marble quarry, and is erecting an office building in Reno. Says the 42-year-old ex-prospector: "I don't intend to sit around and collect dividends...