Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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William Boyce Thompson, copper millionaire and flora expert, was goodhumoredly sunning himself last week aboard his yacht off Miami. Less active than he used to be, he was pleased to learn that the balmy weather around Yonkers, N. Y., was enabling Director William Crocker of the Boyce Thompson Institute for plant research to start spending $3,000,000 which Col. Thompson gave him last year for a 400-acre arboretum adjoining the institute...
...effective use of display line, with their advertisement, "The Call That Will Wake Any Mother". The last award, for an advertisement distinguished for its effective use of typography, went to Kenyon and Eckhardt, Inc., New York, with recognition to Henry Eckhardt and Stuart Campbell, for an advertisement of Revere Copper and Brass, Inc., titled: "The Smoke Marks Paul Revere's Foundry...
...defended Francis G. Caffey, receiver for the New York & Cuba Steamship Co. Other clients whose cases he carried to the Supreme Court: Victor Talking Machine Co., Beechnut Packing Co., Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Co., Aetna Insurance Co., Swift & Co., De Forest Radio, U. S. Industrial Chemical Co.. Anaconda Copper Mining Co., Wabash R. R., General Electric Co. When his son Charles Evans Hughes Jr. became Solicitor General of the U. S. last year, Mr. Hughes Sr. dropped all cases in which the U. S. was his opponent...
...Since archaic times man has known and used carbon, sulfur, gold and silver. He first used copper in Egypt about 4000 B. C. About 3500 B. C. he found iron, and, somewhat later, lead. The Chaldaeans used tin 3500 years...
...doing Houdini tricks with cards or taking rabbits out of the pockets of his friends. He watched the aviators on Long Island preparing for the flight to Paris in the spring of 1927. He came to know Charles Augustus Lind bergh, and etched his portrait directly on copper plate from memory, aided by a photograph, the day Lindbergh landed in Paris. Exhibited in Manhattan while Paris was still cheering, that bit of work did much to establish West. The impressions are now worth about $100 each...