Word: copper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last April the commodity markets of the world were at seven-year highs when President Roosevelt's announcement that he considered the prices of durable goods excessive, sent copper, lead, wheat tobogganing...
...fifty-five metallic groups, only fifteen have been extensively utilized utilized. From ancient times, gold, silver, Iron, copper, tin, zinc, lead, and mercury have been used. And within recent years the aluminum, antimony, bismuth, cadmium, chromium, cobalt, and nickel groups have also found uses...
...construction. A vast, low building on a symmetrical plan, it was Wright's first ambitious use of the cantilever principle, which allowed him to rest each concrete floor slab on a central support, like a tray on a waiter's fingers. He roofed the building with light copper sheathing, made the centre of gravity low as a ship's. And like a ship, the Imperial was made to float. Instead of sinking deep piers to bedrock, the architect rested his building on hundreds of slender, pointed 8-ft. piles, distributing the weight evenly...
Married. Meyer Robert Guggenheim, 53, baldish, four-time-wedded member of the copper-operating dynasty; to Rebecca Pollard Van Lennep, 34, pretty divorcee of less than a week; aboard his yacht, Firenze, moored at Miami Beach...
...show that Soviet production of coal, one of industry's most vital factors, was during the first nine months of 1937 not only definitely below the 1937 Plan figure but also below the production figure for the same period in 1936. The same was true of petroleum, copper and machine tools. On the broad economic front Soviet production is rising, as indeed Tsarist industrial production rose spectacularly in the decade before the Revolution, but Soviet fulfillment of the Plans as a "system of planned economy" or a "planned economic order" cannot be found by neutral economists in Moscow-each...