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...town of 2,000 souls in central France, has had no fire for 600 years; that Holland, in which most buildings are of brick, suffers a smaller annual fire loss than Cleveland. The Society spoke favorably of such modern control methods as fireproof wood (TIME, Jan. 20) and the copper-tube detector which has been installed in the White House, the National Archives Building, the restored colonial edifices of Williamsburg, Va., banks, museums, warehouses, art galleries, libraries, laundries. In this device, concealed in the walls, the heat of a burning wastebasket is enough to expand the air in the tube...
Another innovation is the memorial park which Hubert Eaton, a Los Angeles mining engineer, developed. Mr. Eaton's 350-acre Forest Lawn Memorial Park, which has been copied far & wide, contains no tombstones. Graves are marked by $50 copper plates level with the ground above the body. Mr. Eaton, who operates a funeral parlor on his grounds, discourages ground burials, recommends incineration in his crematory, inurnment and safekeeping in his columbarium. Above all, he prefers interment in a crypt of his gorgeous, statue-decked mausoleum. A refined selling point: Before a casket is sealed into a Forest Lawn crypt...
Millstone that long ground down copper prices was excess metal that backed up on producers when Depression plugged sales. In 1933, copper above ground in the U. S. bulked some 540,000 tons, which at the low rate of Depression consumption was enough to last the U. S. about two and a half years. Since then, U. S. copper men have cut excess stocks to some 218,000 tons, about three months' supply at the present rate of consumption...
Even better off is foreign copper, among whose chief producers are the Congo, Rhodesia and Chile. Purchases by Europe are currently holding foreign demand nearly to the rate of 1935, when the Continent consumed 1,215,000 tons, an all-time record. Chief U. S. copper companies to cash in on the foreign market are Anaconda and Kennecott, which operate big mines abroad...
...weeks, U. S. copper men have been arguing whether they should boost their price from 9.75? to 10? per lb. Fortnight ago, the idea got a stiff setback when potent Kennecott announced it had plenty to sell at the present price, promptly increased its output 25% rather than take a chance on having a runaway market at a higher price. Last week, U. S. copper men were still wary enough to make no price advance even in the face of the foreign rise, although in the past such an action would have been almost automatic...