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...pictures at top and bottom of this page illustrate why the U.S. can't expand copper production fast enough to meet its needs-four years elapsed between them. It took that long for Phelps Dodge to behead a mountain and lay bare the mile-long, 400-ft. thick clay ore body (below) for exploitation. This week Phelps Dodge is putting finishing touches on this new $35,000,000 Morenci mine in Arizona; next month it will start to smelt 6,500 tons of copper a month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COPPER: Newest U. S. Mine | 11/10/1941 | See Source »

...confessed that the convictions of these small fry merely scratched the surface of espionage. Judge Knox thought the trial was a constructive lesson for inquisitive Nazis, sternly reminded the defendants: "In this country, we spread no sawdust on ... our prison yards." He meant that the U. S. did not behead its spies. (In war time, it could shoot or hang them.) Next day in Berlin, a Nazi headsman decapitated two spies for "unnamed foreign powers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Wages of Sin | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

...these examinations ought to be given in the third year, and the Senior exams should be single (choice of several) essay questions on broad subjects of one's field. At any rate, they should not all be dropped like a guillotine at the end of the last year, to behead the student who has not developed a neck stiff enough to withstand such assaults. What the Senior examinations should alone determine is a man's fitness for honors. They should not deprive the man who fails of his degree. Such examinations should be given in the Junior year, with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DIVISIONALS AND THESES | 5/16/1932 | See Source »

...check the general strike at Shanghai, troops loyal to Sun Chuan-fang began to seize and behead strikers picketing in the streets. Excited correspondents variously set the number of strikers decapitated last week at between "46" and "1,113." The effect was to quiet the 50,000 workers, who remained on strike, skulked in their homes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Chaos | 2/28/1927 | See Source »

...court composed of four Americans and three Filipinos sentenced one Isaac Perez, Municipal Secretary of the town of Pilar, to two months and one day in prison for sedition. Perez was tried for having declared that the Filipinos should behead General Wood with a bolo because the Governor opposed Philippine independence. Two Filipino judges dissented...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Investigation? | 12/31/1923 | See Source »

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