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...gold" (iron Pyrites) which gives a surface appearance of precious metal. Yet there was indeed a fortune in the district. It took some 18 years of exploration and drilling-and investment of more than $3,600,000-to find it. Subsequently it produced 25 million tons of copper, gold and silver...
...unique. A favorite form of "strike" is to occupy the plant, continue work, and make the management lose face by increasing production. Strikers at a Mitsui-owned coal mine barred all management personnel from the pits and stepped daily output up from 250 tons to 620. Workers at Ashio copper mines operated during a "strike," increased production, and doubled their own wages...
Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, who has seldom shunned the spectacular, made an ear-jarring proposal last week. He suggested dropping an atomic bomb to crack the more than 1,800-ft.-thick Antarctic polar icecap. Thus, the U.S. might gain access to the copper, iron, gold, coal and other minerals reported hidden below...
...greatness by pouring most of his fortune into a patent clamp to keep babies from rolling out of bed, a checkerboard game for teaching world history (he invented these himself), a patent steam generator, a steam pulley, a new method of marine telegraphy, a device for deodorizing gas-logs, copper type faces, a typesetter. When Author Twain entered old age, some half a million dollars in the red, he attributed his losses to the fact that the world was overrun with "idiots," "moral icebergs," "thieves,'' "swindlers" and "pirates." Outstanding among these wretches, he insisted, was his niece...
...Throw brass aside for a while, & try copper. . . . After you have tried copper, then we will try brass again. ... If we succeed, brass stamps will never be used any more in the Christian world"; "Look into that Bierstadt Artotype business, & see what figure a body can buy into at"; "I wish to God I could get a good pen. I'll be damned if I think any are made." . . . "Dear Charley-Look here, have the Am. Pub. Co. swindled me out of only $2,000? I thought it was five"; "I have this idea: to paint the white marble...