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...COPPER PINCH will be eased by a large-scale U.S. mining expansion in Chile. In a $100 million program, Anaconda Copper will spend $53 million to get its newly discovered Indio Muerto mines into production, expects them to add 100,000 tons of refined copper to the free world's annual production. The company will also increase production another 55,000 tons at two present mines...
This latest batch of scrolls included two made of copper. The uneasy task of unrolling the brittle metal has taken until recently to complete. Incredible secrecy has surrounded the job; John Allegro, 32-year old lecturer in Semitic philology at the University of Manchester, is in charge and has hinted that the contents are "astonishing." The privilege of announcing what it says will be left to the Jordan government, and a dramatic, simultaneous release from Jerusalem, Washington and London is expected by scholars in the early summer. Some speculate that the copper scroll contains a map locating the Essenes' treasures...
...Steel scrapped the earning record established in 1916 ($271,500,000), set a new one of $370,197,625, almost double its '54 net. The current 1956 quarter, said President Roger M. Blough, could be the best ever in the company's history. CJ Kennecott Copper overcame a six-week-long strike to pile up a record $125,615,418, compared with $79,906,288 the year before...
...prime example was aluminum. Though hard aluminum alloys are still barred, soft aluminum is not, and increasing amounts have been shipped to Communist nations. Soft aluminum can be easily reprocessed into aircraft-strength alloys. Another sore point was copper. Great Britain alone shipped more than 100,000 tons of copper to the Soviet bloc, almost 30% of Russia's annual production, and it was sold at a time when the U.S. itself was short of copper. Furthermore, most of it came from mines in Rhodesia that had been developed with U.S. loans. In addition, a whole group of strategic...
...Louis Oppenheimer, 85, director of London's Diamond Corp., which controls 90% of the world's diamond production; in Gerrard's Cross, England. One of five brothers who built the worldwide Oppenheimer holdings (i.e., the Anglo-American Corp., with more than 200 subsidiaries in gold, diamonds, copper and other enterprises, worth about $3 billion), Louis Oppenheimer headed the marketing apparatus of the family's diamond interests, while his brother Sir Ernest ("The King of Diamonds") became director of the corporation in Johannesburg...