Word: copper
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...brothers organized the American Smelting & Refining Co. and the Chile Copper Co. (cheapest and greatest copper producers). They developed copper mines in Alaska, tin mines in Bolivia and nitrate beds in Chile. Daniel Guggenheim, with the late Thomas Fortune Ryan and Bel gian, French and Portuguese financiers and politicians, worked up diamond mines in the Congo region. The Guggenheims, Daniel and his brothers, attribute much of their fortune to their hiring experts at no matter what cost and to maintaining the welfare of their employes...
Consumption. Production of U. S. tin is negligible; but this country consumed (1928) 81,516 tons, or more than half the world's consumption. Tin is used mostly in combination with other metals. Most famed union is the copper-tin alloy bronze, from which was fashioned the short sword of the Roman Legions. Varying proportions of copper and tin give gun metal, bell metal, babbitt metal and many another alloy, the greater the percentage of tin the harder being the resulting composition. A tin and lead alloy is solder. Greatest use of tin (35% of total) is the making...
...Calumet & Arizona (copper) Mining Co. increased dividends from $6 to $10; Pennsylvania R. R. from...
Married. Natalie Price Guggenheim, 18, of Roslyn, L. I., daughter of Copper Tycoon Edmond A. Guggenheim; and Thomas M. Gorman, 27, of Port Washington, L. I., real estate broker, son of a station agent; secretly, three weeks ago, in Great Neck, L. I. Last week Mrs. Gorman sailed for France with her parents. Mr. Gorman stayed home...
...dollars were spent. Not the British Isles, however, but Japan attracted the next largest U. S. expenditure. Of the three countries; however, only imports from Canada showed an increase. Decline in silk prices accounted for the Japanese shrinkage, decline in tin prices for the British. Paper (newsprint) and copper were the Canadian products that chiefly swelled Canada's income. General was the decline in U. S. imports from Europe and Asia; general was the increase from South America. Germany showed the only major European increase, selling potash, sulphate of ammonia, hides, gloves and sulphite pulp in large quantities. Greece...