Word: copper
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Anaconda Copper Mining Co. last week voted to increase its outstanding capital stock by approximately 40%. Income derived from this increase will be used to retire $103,803,000 of the company's funded debt...
...lumpy termagant; the stern old grandmother who indulges a reprobate son. But, often as not, her dramatic moments flare into melodramatic anticlimax: Missie, weary of a wasted life, staggers to her old home, turns on the gas stopcock, falls asleep. "As the sun rose it turned into burnished copper the tarnished gas bracket, through which no gas had flowed for many years, and beat pitilessly on her throat; that throat on which her life was etched with fine lines, and in which now the pulse was still throbbing, throbbing with the terrible vitality of women...
Several books called "Divine Emblems," written by Johann Abricht, are illustrated with copper-plate etchings by Robert Cruikshank...
Anaconda originated and centres in Montana, owning more than 3,300 acres of copper mines in and around Butte. It has recently received much publicity through litigation with W. A. Clark over title to various Montana copper properties (TIME, Sept. 3). Anaconda also has large foreign properties, notably the Chile Copper Co., acquired in 1923 from the Guggenheims and said to possess the largest copper deposit in the world; the Andes Copper Mining Co., also in Chile, and extensive zinc and lead holdings in Poland and Silesia. An extremely important Anaconda subsidiary is the American Brass Co., the world...
...American Smelting & Refining Co. is the world's largest smelting and refining organization, but is interested in lead and silver as well as in copper, and smelts and refines much ore produced by Kennecott, Phelps-Dodge, Utah and other copper concerns...