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...Mound and discovered four evidently royal cadavers of the pre-Indian Mound Builders, lying among quarts and quarts of fresh-water pearls and many polished and carved stone pipes (TIME, Sept. 21). Absence of weapons reaffirmed the belief that the Mound Builders cultivated chiefly the arts of peace. A copper nose on one corpse, patterned cloths under the bones, demonstrated two of these arts...
...their vast necromancies. A glum coterie stood before ranged vials of "industrial alcohols." Twin spirals of galvanized iron whirled at different speeds in glassed boxes, proving to the eye how much less hot air is lost from heat pipes when they are properly swaddled. Before the Anaconda Copper Co.'s glittering display, the crowds milled thickly: an ingot of solid gold! A bottle of platinum filings! Of palladium! In a far corner, a genial little man plunged a gas blow torch into a jug of water. "See, it still burns furiously. And in that vat of molten lead...
...where the Swiss frontier nips off a bit of Lago Maggiore, famed azure cradle of les Isles Borromees lies the little town of Lacarno, at what is said to be the lowest spot in Switzerland. To harassed negotiators, what could be a fairer haven? Locarno boasts but a single copper thread of telegraph wire to connect it with the outside world. Its atmosphere is not Swiss but Italian. Its climate has not the smart alpine tang of St. Moritz, but the balmy southern lambency of Italian Stresa, just across the lake...
...SWEDEN Copper Despatches from Stockholm heralded the discovery at Skelleftea in the North of Sweden of one of the largest copper deposits unearthed in Europe for many years. It was recalled that the Falun mine, Sweden's celebrated copper de posit, has been worked since...
...Mansfeld copper deposit in Germany has been continuously worked for 1,000 years, and will probably be worked for an other...