Word: copper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...forward to. But the lifer has constantly before him the vision of a possible parole or commutation. His conduct is constantly under more careful scrutiny than the termer because it has so much more bearing upon his eventual release than is true to the termer. The termer can lose "copper" (prison cant for earnable credits in the form of reduced actual time spent in prison). The lifer, by the very nature of his sentence, cannot lose anything of that kind because he is already doing "life." Misconduct can extend a lifer's prison stay by years, while it seldom...
...hope of the Council that embargoes include loans and credit, copper, cotton, and minerals. The object of the campaign is to stay out of war, not to remain neutral. Neutrality implies freedom of the seas, but by such legislation, the demands of neutrality are relinquished and peace is the only objective...
...Fermi. Dr. Lawrence obtained 5,000,000-volt gamma rays from salt, evoked the possibility of injecting harmless but radioactivated salt compounds into the human body as a cancer remedy. Dr. Fermi has coaxed radiations of beta particles (fast electrons) from phosphorus, iron, silicon, aluminum, chlorine, vanadium. copper, arsenic, silver, tellurium, iodine, a dozen others...
Died. Emile Francqui, 72, Belgium's richest man and No. 1 hard money expert; in Brussels. A burly, morose and solitary man. Francqui put aside his gifted money-making (banks, copper) whenever Belgium reached a financial crisis, twice devalued the Belgian franc, invented the foreign exchange medium of the belga (five Belgian francs). Europe called him "The Mystery Man," and "The Copper King of the Congo," where as a young captain he saved for Belgium from the British the territory in which one of the world's richest copper mines, Katanga, was later discovered...
...very promising. The U. S. and Canada are not like Jack Sprat & wife. Commercially they are much more like Jack Sprat and his twin brother Bill: in general, they produce similar products. Neither Canada nor the U. S. can expect the other to take its surplus wheat or copper. When the Canadians asked whether the U. S. would take Canadian fish, potatoes, butter, cattle, the answer was: "Unfortunately, we have enough. But we might take a little lumber and some liquor." Even on Canada's one big export to the U. S., newsprint and wood pulp, there could...