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...copper mines of the Congo. In harsher language than he usually uses at his press conferences, the President implied that the nation's 23-year-old war-emergency stockpiling program was chockablock with "mismanagement" and "unconscionable profits" and demanded a congressional investigation. On Wall Street, copper, lead, zinc and aluminum stocks softened, and futures in metals and rubber nosed down...
Last week in Delaware's U.S. District Court, Du Pont was fighting to protect its far vaster investment ($50 million) in another product, Delrin, a remarkably hard and versatile plastic that, since it was introduced in 1960. has begun to replace zinc, aluminum and steel in products ranging from water pumps to auto dashboards and clothespins. The defendant in Du Pont's patent infringement suit is Celanese Corp, of America, which recently began to market a plastic called Celcon (pronounced "Sell-con"). Both are acetal polymers and derive from formaldehyde. Both have a high resistance to chemicals, abrasion...
...Complete Handbook of Stone Printing, he told all his secrets, and thus, just as Gutenberg fathered the great industry of printing from type, Senefelder gave the world the basic process widely used in offset printing (though now usually from zinc plates rather than stone). But beyond its commercial uses, the lithograph has been especially dear to the artist. Through this medium, he can spread his message wide and yet know that no matter how many copies are made, each lithograph will retain his personal touch...
...paved the streets and repaired the waterworks from a source of cash no other province enjoys. It is the cut Tshombe gets from Katanga's Union Minière, the firm that produces 8% of the world's copper, 60% of its cobalt, as well as cadmium, zinc, silver, etc. Union Minière this year is due to hand Tshombe's regime some $52 million in dividends, mineral export taxes and other fees, enough to cover at least 80% of his entire budget. More than that, Union Minière is the Congo's biggest...
...bill to the President authorizing the General Services Administration to sell 2,000,000 Ibs. of goosefeathers and down (used in sleeping bags, flight jackets, survival suits), which it has been hoarding since 1947 (along with iodine, opium, castor oil, sperm oil, diamonds, sapphires, rubies, instruments, missiles, aluminum, tin, zinc, lead, nickel, bismuth and platinum). When Delaware's Senator John Williams asked how many feathers the Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization had collected, he was told that the information was classified...