Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ports be used only when reached over the consolidated railways or by shipment over the sugar companies' roads with a graduated tax of from five to twenty cents per hundredweight on the sugar shipped-a tax that the sugar companies say is prohibitive. The sugar companies and certain copper interests in like position are protesting at Washington that the Tarafa Bill is conflscatory and are asking intervention. It happens that the Cuban public railroads are also owned in large part by Americans. The railroad companies would profit by the bill. So their representatives are also in Washington, protesting against...
...mortgages and notes $24,791,801, real estate $2,941,550, personal property $405,062 and bank balances of $70,287. Mr. Rockefeller's stocks included shares of Standard Oil subsidiaries worth about $3,000,000; also 55,686 shares of St. Paul preferred; 28,517 shares Inspiration Copper; 5,000 Lackawanna Railroad; 39,300 Midvale Steel; 17,300 U. S. Industrial Alcohol; 15,300 Union Pacific; 2,330 Glen Alden Coal; 8,400 New York Central; shares in the Farmers Loan & Trust Co., Guaranty Trust, Hanover National, Mechanics and Metals National, and National City Banks; as well as many...
...bold and successful policy pursued by the Anaconda Copper Co. in taking over Chile Copper has obviously been watched closely and admiringly by other producers and refiners of the red metal. Now the Calumet and Hecla Copper Mining Co. has initiated a merger of its own, which has been agreed upon by the officers of four smaller concerns whose absorption is planned. The new company will have an authorized capital of 2,500,000 shares of $25 each, of which 2,005,502 shares will be distributed to stockholders of the five merging companies. The four smaller concerns are Ahmeek...
...cable will be a " super-cable " recently developed by leading electrical engineers - Dr. Frank B. Jewett of the Western Electric Co., General John J. Carty, Bancroft Gherardi of the American Telephone and Telegraph Co. The distinctive feature is a new copper alloy for the core of the cable, which increases the transmission capacity severalfold...
...proceeding from the middle in both directions. On August 17, 1858, the first message went over the wire : " Europe and America are united by telegraph. Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good-will toward men." The first cable consisted of a core of seven twisted copper wires, covered with gutta percha, hempen yarn saturated with pitch, wax, etc., and a spiral sheathing of iron wires, The whole about 6/10 of an inch in diameter and weighing one ton to the mile. The same general principles are followed today, but it is necessary to make the portions...