Word: anaconda
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chemists use in 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...
JUNGLE DAYS-William Beebe-Putnam ($3.00). A pattern of shot felled a yellow-headed vulture, which had swooped upon a spectacled owl, which had clenched (and been hugged dead by) an anaconda, which had bolted a basha (torpedo-shaped fish), which had snapped up a pok-poke (smoky jungle frog), in whose food canal lived an opalina (irridescent protozoan covered with hairlike flagella). Explorer William Beebe, who fired the shotgun, indicates this chain of life with his dissecting knife, philosophizing as he studies Nature in the steaming jungle of British Guiana. Other chapters-creeping, rustling, whirring, crashing, oozing with live...
...Copper Companies. It was charged that the Treasury had lost $50,000,000 in taxes for the years 1917 and 1918 by allowing excessive valuations (for computing depletion and invested capital); that the Anaconda Copper Co. in particular, claiming $184,152,965 valuation, valued at $54,865,822 by the Chief of the Metals Valuation Section, had been allowed $188,713,192- even more than it claimed...
This import, by withdrawing the cheap copper imported from South America from the domestic markets, would favor home production at high operating costs. Yet it would also hamper the prosperity of many U. S. companies, like Anaconda, which have provided themselves with cheap foreign sources of supply. On the other hand, certain high-grade U. S. copper mines, like Kennecott in Alaska, would make astonishing profits...
...Majestic (White Star) ? Ogden M. Reid, proprietor of The New York Herald-Tribune; John D. Ryan, Chairman of the Anaconda Copper Mining Co.; Mrs. Tom Mix, wife of the cinema actor; John Murray Anderson and James Reynolds, producer and designer of The Greenwich Village Follies...