Word: copper
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...duty, 500 strong. They patrolled the streets in squads. Twenty dusky suspects were taken into custody, but none had a hatchet. Mrs. Stribling thought she recognized her attacker in Jake Bird, a 24-year-old ex-convict, though Bird was black and Mrs. Stribling had described the hatcheteer as copper-colored. Bird was hustled to the State penitentiary for safekeeping...
...Kenn. Copper...
William Hastings Bassett, 60, led the research into the microstructure of copper and its alloys. And from this came dependable, non-corrosive water and steam pipes, boiler tubes to the profit of the American Brass Co., whose technical superintendent...
...Oils, coppers, utilities up 3 to 7 points as the market opens Wednesday, then churn back and forth. Kennecott copper up 12; Curtiss Aero, 12⅓; Wright Aero, 15½. Turnover: 4,894,670 shares. . . . More on Thursday, 5,037,330 shares, second "five million" day in history, only a handful less than on record-breaking June 12. Montgomery Ward closes at 366. Net gain: 17 points. Mounting, too, are Wright (6½-points more, 22 in two days), Coty, Inc. (10½). Where is the ticker? Over an hour behind (might as well have been a week) on Thursday...
Thorn Clark. Montana copper wars, kindled 50 years ago, are not extinguished. Bitter enemy of Anaconda is short, florid William A. Clark Jr., son of the late, short florid Senator who was the most colorful of the copper kings. Last summer. Ana conda bought the Clark interests in Mon tana for some $6,000,000. Included was the Butte Miner, personal organ of young; Clark. But Anaconda could not buy Clark's silence. He sent for a complete newspaper plant, founded the Montana Free Press (TIME, Sept. 3). Anaconda merged the Miner with the Butte edition of the Anaconda...