Word: anaconda
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...times earnings. Quite aside from their relation to earnings many stocks sold at a point where their actual yield in dividends was higher than the yield of bonds. The following were typical of stocks which were purchased at a price to yield in dividends between 8% and 10%: Anaconda Copper, Bethlehem Steel, Chrysler, General Foods, General Motors, Kennecott Copper, Sinclair...
...After the War came another copper interlude, also the development of Chilean nitrate and Bolivian tin. But he was now engaged in the financial and business side of mining rather than the engineering, and finance did not so much appeal to him. When Chile Copper Co. was sold to Anaconda, he came back to the U. S., built himself his fine Norman manor on Long Island, had otherwise no occupation...
Garvan's Random Thoughts. Francis Patrick Garvan, lawyer, onetime (1919) Alien Property Custodian, brother-in-law of Nicholas Frederic Brady (Anaconda Copper), received in absentia the society's Priestley Medal, its highest award, for "distinguished service to chemistry," for being "the greatest lay patron of chemistry in this country." He organized and is president of Chemical Foundation, Inc., to which he sold the War-expropriated German chemical patents. Stockholders of the foundation are U. S. chemical concerns which pay it royalties on its patents and which later get back the greater portion of their payments as dividends...
...including James E. Woodward, president of Metals Bank of Butte and Sam Stephenson, president of First National of Great Falls) the board will number leading industrialists. Among those already chosen are John D. Ryan, Cornelius F. Kelly, and L. O. Evans, respectively the chairman, president and general manager of Anaconda Copper Mining Co., gigantic producer and fabricator not only of copper, but zinc, lead, silver, gold, antimony, arsenic...
...Anaconda Copper...