Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul had pledged $100,000; the Rock Island Lines, $100,000; J. P. Morgan and Co., $500,000; the National City Bank (Manhattan), $500,000; Kuhn, Loeb & Co., $250,000; Henry Ford, U. S. Steel Corp., General Motors, Allied Chemical and Dye, Kennecott Copper, Anaconda Copper, American Radiator, U. S. Rub-ber-all subscribed money, money, more than needed...
Such power was bitterly assailed. But due credit was his when he bought copper for 16¢ when the prevailing price was 30¢, and steel for $58. Then, quietly resigning on Jan. 1, 1919, Baruch became a student?of economics in general and American farming in particular. He went to Kansas, wrote a report on agricultural marketing, a sort of Magna Charta for the farm movement. And now, in spite of his Wall St. "past," he basks in the confidence and friendship of the farmer. It is also as a student that he endows the Williams Institute. There he will...
...sensations during the past week was the new signs of prosperity for copper. Practically ever since the high war-time prices resulted in open-ing so many new deposits that demand was soon swamped, the industry has experienced a condition of suspended animation. Only the richest deposits, with lowest production costs, really paid to operate. Even Anaconda, premier American company in size and scope, has had difficulties...
Daniel is known as the leading spirit of the group. During the War he took the lead in seeing that the Government was supplied with copper at half the prevailing market price. Before he was 40 he had crossed the Atlantic 70 times. He is a patron of Art, Music, Literature, horse breeding, horticulture, an excellent geographer and anthropologist, a noted philanthropist...
...York-Azores line of the Western Union Telegraph Co. 300% over similar cables. Officials of the Company believe it will revolutionize the cable industry. A trial cable, laid in deep water off Bermuda, withstood severe tests. In the new type of cable a thin layer of permalloy surrounds the copper core, under the gutta percha and wire coating on the outside...