Word: copper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Labor named as its representative on the automobile board Richard L. Byrd. In 1912 Mr. Byrd was known as the man who placed second in the discus throw in the Olympic games at Stockholm. Later he worked in the copper mines in Nevada, and after that for Fisher Body Co. Today he heads the A. F. of L. union in General Motors plants...
...Minister to the Irish Free State last September, William Wallace McDowell was chairman of the Democratic Central Committee in Montana and could have anything he wanted, within reason. Said he: "I wanted to be Minister in some country where they speak the English language. I've been mining copper for 35 years now, and most of the mines out there were dug by the Irish. They sometimes call Butte Little Ireland. One of my friends, the late Marcus Daly, who founded the Anaconda Copper Mining Co., was an Irishman. I am not trained in diplomacy or anything like that...
...Next to copper, giant Russian sunflowers 16 in. wide are Minister McDowell's specialty. "I got the farmers to grow them for cattle fodder. It gives you from 15 to 24 tons per acre. We cut it up just before it gets green, and silo it. Yes. sir, the cows break their necks getting...
...Actually, figured in quantities, German exports for February, 1934 were well above those for February, 1933, before the boycott began. Furthermore, the high import total was explained by the fact that the Nazi leaders have lately prodded German businessmen to step up production, buy more raw materials like cotton, copper and wool...
...means the highest paid. President Walter Gifford of American Telephone & Telegraph had his salary cut from $229,167 to $206,250 last March. Highest straight salary for 1932 was $250,000, paid to Charles M. Schwab as board chairman of Bethlehem Steel. President Cornelius Francis Kelley of Anaconda Copper got $249,232 in 1932, against $345,000 in 1929. Eugene Gifford Grace of Bethlehem Steel got a $1,600,000 bonus in 1929 but his $12,000 salary had been upped to $180,000 for 1932. That year George Washington Hill was paid a $120,000 salary...