Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Following these events, Secretary Wallace and Speaker Gillett took autos to follow the original plan of the party by traveling over the Richardson Trail and taking the Copper River Railroad to Cordova. Secretaries Work and Hoover took train back to Anchorage and later to Seward to hold hearings on the complaints and proposals of Alaskans. The President and Mrs. Harding followed the two latter in a more leisurely fashion...
...COPPER Box-J. S. Fletcher- Doran ($1.75). Caught in a snow-storm on the Scottish Border, a young artist seeks shelter in a lonely, high-turreted house where he finds a pretty girl, her guardian, a cynical, mysterious amateur of the arts, and, on the mantlepiece, a copper box marked with a strange crest. Adventures come thick and fast, but there are no murders. The coil is unwound at last to a happy ending. A slight, debonair mystery story, lightly and engagingly executed...
...past five years the Butte mines have spent thousands of dollars in ventilation improvements, drilling special shafts, sprinkling working faces, installing fans. They have increased the flow of fresh air several hundred per cent, have made it possible to mine copper and other metals where ore veins reach a depth of more than 5,000 feet and the rock temperature is 115 to 120 degrees. Practically the whole population of Butte (80,000 in boom times) is dependent on the industry, and the total production of the district is now in excess of $1,500,000,000, employing as many...
...Government intends to issue 210,000,000,000 marks of aluminum coins. At present there are some 200 mark coins in circulation, but with the new issue 500 and 1,000 mark coins will appear. Before the war the only coins in circulation were one and two pfennig copper coins, 5, 10 and 25 pfennig nickel pieces and 10 and 20 mark gold pieces...
...elected legislative representative of the Illinois miners. For 5½ years he was general organizer and field representative of the American Federation of Labor, in which capacity he handled the Calumet copper strike and the Akron rubber workers' strike. In 1913 he handled the unsuccessful campaign to unionize the steel industry...