Word: anacondas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. Lele von Harrenreich Daly, marrying widow of Anaconda copper-rich Marcus Daly, her second husband; and Richard Franklin Ford, 46, balding son of the late Standard Oilman Harry Smith Ford; she for the fifth time, he for the first; in Upper Nyack...
Biggest bolt ever recorded: a flaring snapper which hit the 585-ft. smelter stack of the Anaconda Copper Mining Co. at Butte, Mont., in the summer of 1941. Its current totaled more than 160,000 amperes; its estimated pressure exceeded 15,000,000 volts. (Ordinary home circuit: 110 volts...
...clearer proof of the terrible responsibility which sits on the shoulders of U.S. management could be had than was given last week in the shocking case of Anaconda Wire & Cable Co. From a grand jury sitting in Fort Wayne, Ind., came a blistering indictment charging the company and the officials of its Marion, Ind. plant with faking on Government tests for wire and cable, and. with transferring inspection labels from tested to untested materials with a view to defrauding the Government. Material already sold to Russia, it was reported, has proven defective; material sold to the U.S. Army...
...Such occurrences as that which happened at the Anaconda copper mines (TIME, Nov. 23) seem to indicate that America is not yet old enough to become a world power when certain groups would discriminate against a group of Americans as loyal as the Negro...
This week the Anaconda copper mines were still open, though not operating at full capacity for want of labor. The Negroes were still in Butte, but all above ground. The C.I.O., the Army and the Administration were sputtering. Anaconda, for once no one's whipping boy, could say with Daniel M. Kelly, mine manager: "We're just on the sidelines in all this show." Said Mr. Byrne of Local No. 1: "We're going on the theory that this is still a democracy...