Word: copper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...distant relative of the striped bass is the copper-colored channel bass, a surf fish whose sportiness is confined to acting like a Japanese tumbler. Last week, around Cape Hatteras, No. 1 locale for channel bass, surfcasters were hopefully trying to beach one bigger than the world's record 74-pounder taken off Virginia...
...members of the Geological Department are on field trips in Central and South America. Professor Graton assisted by Oscar Gerald, has flown to Fern to study copper deposits at Cerro de Pasco mines. At the same time Professor McLaughlin is working on the west coast of Mexico, surveying for sliver and gold mines...
...iron ores are being worked by the State-owned Hermann Goring Iron Works; by 1940 the Nazis expect that perhaps 35% of the iron consumption of Great Germany will be supplied from domestic sources. Aluminum from bauxite imported from Hungary and the Balkans is supplementing heavier metals, such as copper and nickel. Artificial rubber sufficient for 25 to 30% of the peacetime rubber requirements is being conjured out of limestone and coal...
...face of threatening inventory losses and production curtailment? How soon will the auto-steel logjam break, so that Detroit can again lead U. S. business to another upturn? And, more philosophically, do price reductions pay when they don't coax new business out of hiding? Meanwhile, the copper industry demonstrated that Henry Ford's low price-big volume doctrine is still worth something. Last week, copper companies, who recently got new orders by cutting prices from 11¼? to 10¼? a Ib. (TIME, May 15), found orders again drying up. So Kennecott Copper Corp., big Guggenheim unit...
Beard's great-grandfather was a Federalist, his grandfather a Whig and rebel Quaker who ran "a one-man church" and speculated in Western lands; his father was a "copper-riveted, rock-ribbed, Mark Hanna, true-blue" Republican who prospered as building contractor, ran a bank, read the classics, raised his family on a farm to develop their backbone. At 18 Charles Beard owned a country weekly, the graduation gift of his father, ran it at a profit for four years. At Methodist DePauw College his extracurricular activities included reporting for a Republican newspaper, electioneering for a Republican Senator...