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Meantime, Newell and an Indian tried to capture a large Anaconda boa constrictor. It had been Siemel's idea that one of these monsters, which reach a length of 30 ft., could be taken alive by loop-ended poles in the hands of a half-dozen men. Newell and the Indian sought to make a capture alone, but their snake writhed and lashed so powerfully that, in order to protect their own lives, they had to kill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Matto Grosso Rigors | 4/13/1931 | See Source »

...Bros, and others backed Aviation Corp. His other interests are many, include important rail-road directorates. The firm was one of the first to enter Europe after the War, made many a loan in Germany. It has been active in Polish financing, and financed Silesian zinc mines with the Anaconda group...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Brown-Harriman | 12/22/1930 | See Source »

Died. Marcus Daly, 48, son and heir of the late great Marcus Daly who founded Anaconda Copper Mining Co.; owner of manganese properties in Virginia, a director of Hedley Gold Mining Co. Ltd.; of a heart attack while duck-hunting near Wachapreague...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Nov. 24, 1930 | 11/24/1930 | See Source »

...students of "his boyhood struggles, phenomenal success and subsequent leader ship." The six: President James Augustine Farrell of U. S. Steel; Builder Ernest Robert Graham of Chicago (Graham, Anderson, Probst & White); Samuel Insull; Board Chairman Charles Edwin Mitchell of National City Bank; Chair man John D. Ryan of Anaconda Copper Mining Co.; President Gerard Swope of General Electric...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: For Notre Dame | 11/24/1930 | See Source »

What makes copper unique is the manner in which its control rests in the hands of a few men. Fortnight ago these men met in Manhattan. Leading U. S. representative was Cornelius Francis Kelley, president of Anaconda Copper Mining Co. and Copper Exporters, Inc., chairman of Copper Institute and spokesman for 25 big U. S. producers. From Belgium there had come M. Fernand Pisart, managing director of the Societe Generale des Minerals, Belgian outlet for the Katanga Mines in the Belgian Congo, and his associate, Camille Gutt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Curious, Confident Copper | 11/24/1930 | See Source »

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