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When San Manuel hits full production, perhaps by midsummer, it will process 30,000 tons of ore daily and yield 70,000 tons of copper yearly, plus 3.000 tons of molybdenum as a byproduct. Thus Magma, which has only one other smelter (at Superior, Ariz.), will boost its total copper production to almost 100,000 tons yearly, jump from sixth to third place among U.S. producers (after Kennecott and Phelps Dodge). At peak production San Manuel will expand U.S. copper output by 8%, molybdenum...
...varsity rifle team beat Boston University 1386 to 1350 at the B.U. rifle range to boost its season's record to five wins and two losses...
Paper mills in Canada, which make more than half the world's newsprint, and in the U.S. planned to expand. But no boost in output is possible until late 1956. Meantime, the shortage will grow worse: five major newsprint producers notified customers of imminent cutbacks in allotments of from...
...thoroughly unpredictable varsity basketball team will attempt to boost its record above .500 tomorrow night when it meets a better-than-average M.I.T. squad. Gametime at the Engineers...
Ochsner's bullpen clinics made the impression that he wanted. That was in 1927. Now some 3,000 physicians, graduated from his surgery classes, are practicing in Louisiana and neighboring states. He has done much to boost the level of medi calpractice throughout the Deep South, and thus fortified a great Tulane tradition. For its chair of surgery is the most noted south of St. Louis and one of the most influential...