Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ceremony. The great day came. The University of Mount Scopus (consisting at present of a remodeled house, a copper-domed wing, an unfinished amphitheatre) was crowded by 8,000 clamoring spectators. The ancient city of Jerusalem was as festive as it could be without Arab cooperation. Jewish hawkers sold "Balfour biscuits," "Balfour keftas" (rissoles), "Balfour chocolate," which was not strange in a land which has a model village named Balfouria...
...cable from New York to Italy was officially opened last week. By the use of permalloy, a nickel-iron mixture, around its copper core, the cable is able to transmit about 1,700 letters a minute as compared to some 250 a minute by ordinary cable...
Liquidation has been halted in both the grain and the stock markets. Yet evidence accumulates that, of late, production of steel and iron, gasoline, copper and other important commodities has been somewhat too brisk for the gradual development of consumption, and the trend of prices is therefore toward lower levels. Gasoline led off in this direction last week by a 1? price reduction...
This import, by withdrawing the cheap copper imported from South America from the domestic markets, would favor home production at high operating costs. Yet it would also hamper the prosperity of many U. S. companies, like Anaconda, which have provided themselves with cheap foreign sources of supply. On the other hand, certain high-grade U. S. copper mines, like Kennecott in Alaska, would make astonishing profits...
...copper industry just now is carefully considering the future in the light of the remarkable Katanga copper properties in Africa. In two years, the latter expect to complete railroad lines to the coast, and will then be ready to flood the world's markets with the cheapest copper known. Meanwhile, the aluminum industry is furnishing the copper trade with stiff competition in several fields wherein the latter has previously had things much its own way. By weight, aluminum is much cheaper than copper, and is being used to an increasing extent in electric transmission, as a heavy saver...