Word: copper
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wooden couch lay the six-foot skeleton of a personage, seemingly female, littered with beads, carbuncles, garnets, gold and silver objects, glass balls, with black and yellow designs like eyes. On the arm bones hung massive bracelets?eight on the right, seven on the left?of gold alloyed with copper and some other metal, perhaps antimony, which would link the artifacts definitely with Punic work done at Carthage, on the Sahara's north edge, before its conquest by Rome in 146 B. C. The beads resembled Carthaginian work of the Fourth Century B. C. At the skeleton's ostrich-plumed...
...opposition has been the most brutal and unjust since the copper strikes in Colorado a number of years ago. The mayor and chief of police of Garfield are both high salaried employees of the mill owners, and as such have employed every means to crush the strikers...
...large glass cases on the third floor, a small double basket of wicker work is suspended by an ordinary piece of copper wire from the top of the case. The wire is fastened to a nail which, if we disregard the aid of the occult sciences, can be found to possess no unusual qualities...
...loadings- stayed high. The measures of demand and production-shipments and orders-were in good volume. The measures of volume-and-price -bank clearings-kept their level. Through the lens that is Wall Street, quickened activity could be observed in several industries that have drowsed of late-notably oil, copper, sugar, textiles...
Last year, Daniel Guggenheim, Manhattan copper man and banker, gave to promote society's future in the air, half a million of the dollars his family had dug from the bowels of the earth, the money going to help endow New York University's School of Aeronautics (TIME, June...