Word: copper
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...started an investigation. At first it was thought that someone had reported false news in order to manipulate stock prices. Presently, however, it was discovered that in the notice that had come to the Exchange concerning the dividend, was carelessly substituted the name "Mother Lode Coalition Mines" for "Kennecott Copper Co." upon whose shares the dividend had really been declared. As soon as news of this discovery was broadcast all the hopeful purchasers of "Mother Lode" promptly threw them overboard and that stock declined below where it had been originally...
Just at present certain industries are very sick-the leather, textile and fertilizer lines are examples. Other industries are not well, and will presumably be worse before they are better ; these include iron and steel, high cost copper properties, automobiles and railroad equipment. Still other industries, like the oils, have been sick and are now getting through their convalescent period. The whole question is whether the present recession in business will broaden and lengthen into a depression, or prove only a slight halt in operations. When things get bluest will be the time to plan on renewed activity. But that...
...magnitude of Mr. Lee's work may be gathered by the foregoing account of his activities during an industrial crisis. But Mr. Lee also represents such industries as the Pennsylvania Railroad, Bethlehem Steel Corporation, Copper and Brass Association, and the Standard Oil Company. Mr. Lee began his career as a newspaper reporter in New York City, and his present profession is an outgrowth the from his experience derived in that line of endeavor...
...occupies the foremost place in the publicity world through the remarkable scope of his work. At present he numbers among his clients the Pennsylvania Railroad, the Bethlehem Steel Corporation, and the Copper and Brass Research Association. Today his business is largely international...
...lowest expansion ratio of any solid known. A tube of it one yard long, heated to 3,200 degrees Fahrenheit, increased but 1/50 inch in length. Platinum increases 1/3 inch when subjected to the same heat, and copper 3/5 inch. President S.W. Stratton, of M.I. T., former director of the Bureau of Standards, believes that all standards of length will now be made of fused quartz instead of platinum...