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...This "sucuri" was an anaconda, water-dwelling member of the boa-constrictor family.* Far more ill-tempered than its cousins, the African boas and the pythons of Africa, Asia and Australia, it is the largest snake in the New World, third largest in all the world (after the reticulated and Indian pythons, which sometimes exceed ten yards in length...
...anaconda is distinguished from other boas by two characteristics which adapt it to aquatic habits: plates, instead of scales, on the head, which enable it to shut its nostrils and remain submerged for some time, like moose, whales, beavers; and bearing its young alive (viviparous) instead of laying eggs (oviparous). Like its cousins it is at home in trees, but more often it lies submerged in a water-hole, with only the eyes above water. It strikes dead with a hammering head blow or seizes its prey in its jaws: secures the carcass in a coil of its body; constricts...
Copper Consortium. Under the Webb-Pomerene act, which permits U. S. industries to cooperate against foreign trade competition provided no harm to domestic commerce results, Copper Exporters Inc. has been formed, with Cornelius F. Kelley (Anaconda Copper Mining Co.) as president. A "New York committee," representing 18 U. S. companies, will regulate trade practices and prices abroad. It will cooperate with a "Brussels committee," representing 15 foreign concerns, to act similarly for world copper trade...
Averell Harriman and the Anaconda Copper Mining Co. bought control of the Georg von Giesche Heirs Mining Co. in Poland for $10,000,000 (TIME, June 14). They have just organized the Silesian-American Corp. to operate those Silesian properties as a subsidiary of Anaconda, the first important instance of an industrial enterprise of one 'country so overlording a similar one in another country. Last week Silesian-American sold $15,000,000 collateral trust bonds in Manhattan, to use in operations...
...roster of the world's most potent bank includes the names of Capitalist N. F. Brady, Shipper P. A. S. Franklin, Soap Man W. C. Procter, besides many another bigwig. To this array was added the name of John D. Ryan, Chairman of the Board of the Anaconda Copper Mining Company, miner, friend of trusts, "combinations," high finance...