Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Copper Companies. It was charged that the Treasury had lost $50,000,000 in taxes for the years 1917 and 1918 by allowing excessive valuations (for computing depletion and invested capital); that the Anaconda Copper Co. in particular, claiming $184,152,965 valuation, valued at $54,865,822 by the Chief of the Metals Valuation Section, had been allowed $188,713,192- even more than it claimed...
Ever since the unusual stimulation provided by the World War, the deep-shaft, low grade copper mines of this country have found the going hard, with production costs close to market quotations for the red metal. Discouraged producers, especially in Michigan, are now turning to tariff legislation as the only visible means of running their properties at a profit. The movement has resulted in a bill introduced by Representative W. Frank James of Michigan, to place a tariff on imported copper of 6? a pound...
Increases were: lumber (20%), coal (40%), petroleum (18%), martensite † (80%), iron ore (112%), copper (60%), manganese (45%), textiles (35%-50%), flax fabric (35%), matches (30%), rolled iron (50%), pig iron (122%), steel (35%), hides (3%), raw sugar (40%), cotton crop (800% within a two-year period...
...these strange waters have sailed the persons, money, interests of many American families, most notable of which is that of Dodge, a family famed in copper-mining, Presbyterianism, Y. M. C. A. work, general benevolence, peace...
...first cousin of the late Theodore Roosevelt. Died. Thomas W. Lawson, 67, frenzied financier, called "the world's greatest speculator"; in Boston, after an operation for diabetes. When 17, he ran away from school, in five years had made-and lost-$60,000 in speculation. He bought copper stock for 75c, sold it for $60 a share, won a new sobriquet, "the Copper King." Died. Oliver Heavisicle, 70, last year awarded a gold medal by the Society of Electrical Engineers (London), as "the greatest living authority on electricity"; in Devonshire, England, of a fall from a ladder...