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...Operator. By the time he was 27, Bernie Baruch was a big-time operator himself. He earned his first big commission by buying control of Liggett & Myers for Ryan's Tobacco Trust. He bought a seat on the Exchange, made a spectacular killing by selling Amalgamated Copper short. (The stock dropped from 130 to 33⅜). He met a few sickening reverses: he once said, "I've had some losses that would make an ordinary married man go out and shoot himself." But in 1916, just before Woodrow Wilson called him to serve in World...
...Army, sick of its bargain, and having at last discovered that its soldiers were better trained at country training camps, wanted to sell the Stevens. This seemed stupidity compounded: where in this land of priorities could anyone possibly buy enough down-cushion sofas, good beds, copper and aluminum kettles and pans to refurnish the Stevens...
...Government is already paying out some $700 millions a year in subsidies to meet special situations. Examples: to encourage copper production; to pay the excess cost of moving oil east by rail instead of by sea. The present big squeeze results from the pressure that skyrocketing wages and farm prices have put on the cost of domestic goods at the manufacturing and distributing level...
While testing his metal in alloys (lithium had been used to harden lead, purify copper), Ness noticed that the little furnace did not burn out as soon as expected, discovered that lithium vapor was preventing oxidation of the steel. Then it was found that a little lithium lasted a long time because it was being chemically regenerated from its own oxide by the carbon monoxide present in the fuel gas. This discovery the Patent Office refused to believe until U.S. examiners went to the little brick laboratory in Newark, saw with their own eyes how lithium worked. Then they granted...
...Congo needs a first-class harbor at its mouth and locks around its falls and rapids. Once really opened, this dark Elysium can pay in low-cost vegetable oils, in copper, in minerals and fibers yet unprospected...