Word: anacondas
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Anaconda's vast Butte mine lost 1,000 men to other jobs in the first five months of this year (a third of them in May), could replace only...
...Republic Steel is already using New York State iron; and Anaconda Copper and Vanadium Corp. are mining Montana chromite...
Metals. Aircraft-parts makers and other metal fabricators have been held back by the metals shortage, especially copper. So the mines of Anaconda, Phelps-Dodge and Miami last week jumped from a sixto a seven-day week. (Kennecott has operated day in, day out for more than a year.) Production increases in the first three companies alone will add perhaps 50,000 tons annually to the U.S. copper supply, an amount equal to 5% of 1940's entire U.S. production...
...seven-day operations can mean different things. Anaconda miners now work six days but on overlapping shifts so that the mines are never idle. Phelps-Dodge had planned to put its miners on a straight seven-day week, but crashed head-on with the C.I.O. The Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers Union's complaint: a man's efficiency declines rapidly if he is overworked. The union's proposal: increase the force and use three full 40-hour shifts, then install air-conditioning for still more efficiency...
...High point was a war-inspired 300,000 tons in 1918, chiefly from now run-down oxide beds in Colorado. By 1934 ore production shriveled to 853 tons. It is now about 100,000 tons-10% of a year's needs-mostly turned out from carbonate by an Anaconda Copper subsidiary in Butte, Mont...