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Four Medical School researchers have discovered a significant relationship between zinc metabolism and an often-fatal disease of heavy drinkers, cirrhosis of the liver...
Cooler friendships between the U.S. and three hemisphere neighbors seemed a sure result as the U.S. Tariff Commission began hearings this week in Washington on tariffs for imported lead and zinc. Heavy administration pressure was on the commission to raise the tariffs; President Eisenhower promised last August that he would request it to "expedite its consideration of the matter." Even before the hearings began, anguished complaints came from Canada, Peru and Mexico...
During World War II, U.S. mines in such big lead and zinc states as Idaho and Utah operated at top capacity, and the U.S. encouraged foreign producers by buying every ton they could deliver. Prices and production fluttered after the war. In 1953 the market sagged, but was quickly buoyed up by a U.S. grain-for-metals barter program and stockpiling. But this year, with enough lead and zinc stored up to last an estimated three years, the U.S. eased off on stockpiling. Prices tumbled from 16? to 13½? a Ib. for lead, from 13½? t010...
...always felt [the Americans] were fair-weather friends," said an official of the Canadian Metal Mining Association. "When the pinch is on-wham! Someone starts talking tariffs." Peruvians say that any tariff hike, no matter how small, will put most of the country's lead and zinc producers out of business, cost the country 14% of its export income...
...Minister Antonio Carrillo Flores pointed out that "it is to the U.S.'s interest to maintain the present high level of exports to Mexico. But how can Mexico keep up its imports if the U.S. cuts our ability to pay for them, if we get less for our zinc and lead?" Concluded ex-Diplomat Henry Holland, who was the State Department's Inter-American Affairs chief until last year: "InterAmerican trade is in greater danger than at any time in years...