Word: copper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Professor A. C. Coolidge '87, of the History Department, director of the library, delivered a short commemorative address, after which the stone was raised, and a sealed copper chest was placed beneath...
...wood carving. That this tariff effectually kept foreign sculpture out of England, even for exhibition purposes, was something it took Parliament six years to discover and, last January, to amend. First to take advantage of the amendment was small, smart, grey-haired Peggy Guggenheim, daughter of the late copper Tycoon Benjamin Guggenheim and founder of a new London gallery cutely called "Guggenheim Jeune." For Guggenheim Jeune Director Peggy this month planned a knock-out exhibition of sculpture by Abstractionists Brancusi, Arp, Duchamp-Villon, Calder, Laurens. Pevsner. But she had reckoned without J. B. Manson. By the terms of the amended...
...world, some 3,500 cables, totaling 300,000 miles in length, have been put in operation. They lie flat and tensionless on the floor of the ocean, avoid undersea peaks and canyons, go no deeper than about three miles, cost around $2,000 a mile. Inside each cable a copper conducting wire, 1 in. thick, is protected by layers of guttapercha, brass tape, jute yarn, galvanized iron...
...other undeveloped section of the U. S." Crammed with 4,000-foot mountain chains, this wilderness has only three connections with civilization-a highway up the coast and 50 miles inland a parallel highway and Southern Pacific R. R. line. Between are said to lie rich deposits of chrome, copper, gold, iron, coal, limestone and platinum beneath an evergreen blanket of several billion feet of virgin timber. To exploit this domain has been a local dream for 50 years but only in the last three has exploitation actually begun, and that almost solely through the efforts of a onetime hunter...
Frequently the President's obiter dicta on prices appear to be tossed off extemporaneously. Just so in press conference he remarked that he still believed-as he had in 1933-that prices were too low but that he did not mean that copper should go up again to 19? a lb.† However, he coupled this casual expression of his views with the announcement that three days later he would really go into the question...