Word: copper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year ago, when the steel industry was operating at 60% of capacity instead of 29%,, there might have been trouble, regardless of lack of unions, had wages gone down. The same was true of the other industries which faced cuts last week, and which have been cut before. Copper miners have unions but they are not strong and they realize the copper companies could afford to shut down in the event of a strike...
...took. Things Helen knew: that George L. Baker is Portland's Mayor; that George V is England's King; Herbert Hoover the U. S. President; Calvin Coolidge, ex-President; George Washington, first President; that electricity "lights, shocks"; that tea comes from Japan. She knew the meanings of: copper, dungeon, lecture, haste. Things she did not know: the life-span of a horse; the largest city in the U. S.; why the heart beats. If she were hunting a ball lost in a circular field and were, offered two ways of finding it, she would utilize the "inferior...
...Steel, Copper, Rubber, Motors. Thus the greatest argument in U. S. business for the past year was settled. Many a potent industrialist is still against reductions, including President Walter Sherman Gifford of American Telephone & Telegraph who carries great weight on the U. S. Steel directorate. But with Steel taking the lead, other companies rushed to follow. Bethlehem Steel Corp. and Youngstown Sheet & Tube followed suit so precipitously as to suggest that they had settled the argument long ago, were merely awaiting a strong lead to follow. As more and more steel companies were added to the list, absences became conspicuous...
...Copper sold last week at 7?, spot; 7¼? future deliveries; 7½? export price to European base ports...
Seneca Finished. In 1924 Seneca Copper Corp. went into receivership. The next year Seneca Copper Mining Co. succeeded it. Seneca has had a poor history. In June 1927, it closed up, reopened in October 1928, when copper prices began to rise; last December it again closed. Since at the end of last year Seneca showed cash of only $5,115 and since it is one of the high-cost producers, coppermen were not surprised last week to hear that once again Seneca is in receivership. The company owns 2,465 acres of copper property in Keweenaw County, Mich., produced...