Word: copper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Observatory. One day was solemn. The seers of the heavens trooped before a big, partially completed building to watch & hear Professor Harlow Shapley, head of the Harvard Observatory, place some Pickering photographs in a copper box with some other documents. This, he said, he was doing to enlighten astronomers five centuries from now as to how far advanced the present-day astronomer...
...hole in the wall of the new building, and handed a marked brick to England's Astronomer-Royal, Sir Frank Watson Dyson. The Astronomer-Royal patted some mortar on the brick and with it plugged the hole-in-the-wall which contained the copper box. saying: "As is the custom of godfathers. I place the care of this magnificent observatory into the hands of its most capable parents...
...hobby: a top-notch tariff on sugar to benefit Louisiana's cane industry. Even Utah's Republican Smoot is no higher protectionist than he. He ardently advocates Philippine independence to put that possession's sugar crop outside the tariff wall. He voted for coal, oil and copper tariffs in the 1932 Revenue Act. Because of his passion for Republican tariffs most Democratic leaders eye him with political distrust. To the press gallery he is a Democrat in name only and his vote can generally be anticipated. His proudest political feat was inducing Republicans to agree to legislation...
Scattered among the other delegates were Thomas Nelson Perkins (Boston & Maine), Redfield Proctor (Vermont Marble), Alfred P. Sloan Jr. (General Motors), Cornelius Francis Kelley (Anaconda Copper), Myron C. Taylor (U. S. Steel). William Hartman Woodin (American Car & Foundry), William Wallace Atterbury (Pennsylvania R. R.), Arthur Colbraith Dorrance (Campbell Soup), Irénée du Pont (explosives), George Horace Lorimer (Satevepost), Wilfred Washington Fry (N. W. Ayer & Son), J. Howard Pew (Sun Oil), Howard Heinz (pickles), William Cooper Procter (Ivory soap), George Mathew Verity (American Rolling Mill), Harvey S. Firestone Jr. (tires), Paul Weeks Litchfield (Goodyear), James Dinsmore Tew (Goodrich), Charles...
Great Britain-Australia? Quids: 1) Free entry of frozen meats for one year, provided the imports do not exceed those of 1932. 2) Tariff preferences similar to those granted Canada on wheat, dairy products, fruits, copper, zinc, lead and asbestos, wines...