Word: copper
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...contract is the largest made since the Bolshevik revolution and gives the Company ample compensation for losses sustained during the nationalization of the property. The concession covers an area of approximately 1,500,000 acres of gold, silver, copper and lead fields, the value of which were estimated at $150,000,000. U. S. capital is to participate on equal terms with British...
...construction or adornment of a covered structure was thei exhibited by its manufacturer. Lifted high on a dark altar, in a tapestried chamber still as the Sistine Chapel there stood, surrounded by soft lights, a radiator. Bungalows, batik vacuum-cleaners, stained-glass windows, Empire rooms, Renaissance rooms, furnaces, mosaics, copper leaders, shingles, door panels, floor-cement, player-pianos and bathrooms, everywhere bathrooms. Crystalline with sunken tubs, silver faucet eburnean wicker toilet seats, they met the eye at every turn?exquisite little chapels, deifying the modern frenzy for sanitation...
...steps of Widener. After their care-worn faces are exposed to the negative, their lives will be imperilled in the positive. That is, the freshmen will be allowed the rare pleasure of settling old scores with the size of their largess. Silver is a heavier metal than nickel or copper and usually comes in bigger commodities. Surely the privilege of "crowning" the senior is cheap at any price...
...meeting of the Tanganyika Concessions Co. in London, recently, produced considerable valuable information about the future of the Katanga Copper Co. of Africa...
...Katanga copper belt extends east and west for about 250 miles. Hitherto only the easiest veins in this extensive ore body have been mined. Last year, 85,000 tons of copper were produced. But the Company expects to see an output of 160,000 tons by 1928, and ultimately an annual production of between 300,000 and 400,000 tons. To a large extent, the Company's executives believe that the production from Katanga will be cheaper in cost than any other mines in the world, and consequently able to sell on a profitable basis at all times...