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Amid the barren, mud-colored hills surrounding Chile's Chuquicamata, stood last week a knot of enthusiastic newshawks. They had stopped off on their way home from a Pan-American Press Conference at Valparaiso for a gigantic entertainment specially staged for them by the world's largest copper mines. They were to see one of the world's largest explosions, the firing of 3,000,000 Ib. of dynamite...
...Melt copper with tin and you get bronze, probably the oldest, certainly one of the most useful alloys in the world. Last week the Albright Art Gallery of Buffalo popped into the spotlight with an exhibition illustrating the history of bronze-casting from about 3000 B.C. to the 20th Century. Eschewing such utilitarian objects as Roman swords, motorboat propellers and bank tellers' cages, the gallery has assembled a collection of 173 statuettes, all of them of first rank, only one (a Degas figurine) the property of the Albright Art Gallery. Most liberal lenders were New York's Metropolitan...
...When bad weather grounded him in Washington, the Association's pressagent quickly arranged to transmit the speech by telephone. Due to bad weather there was difficulty completing the circuit, and when his voice was finally heard, General Johnson nettled the fidgety gold & silver miners by talking about copper...
...seconds of concentrated shooting from a squad. Emphasis, however, is placed on the scientific angles of crime detection, the long rooms of cross-indexed fingerprints and nicknames, the rows of white coated technicians and microscopes and test tubes. When it had to decide which knife had cut through a copper screen, the F.B.I. placed filings from the different knives and from the screen in a burner and compared the spectra they gave off. It has plastic material for impressions of footprints and tire treads so nice that a plaster cast of a hand can be made to give accurate...
Biggest fuss last week in the commodity markets which the bounding indices reflect was in copper. Metal prices at home and abroad have been rising dramatically since early autumn. Fortnight ago copper's sister non-ferrous metal, tin, was placed on virtually a 1929 production basis by the tin cartel (TIME, Jan. 18). Last week, with export copper selling as high as 12.75? per lb., the international copper cartel called off production quotas to keep the price of the red metal from soaring higher and to discourage reopening of low-grade mines...