Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sweet Stuff, 5 ft. 7 in., nine-year-old rattler owned by Dr. Frank Sweet: the Arkansas Rattlesnake Derby; defeating a field of 47 defanged racing snakes who were sent off to a lively start by electrically charged copper wires nailed to the board on which they were placed (in the centre of a circle 500 feet in circumference) ; reaching the circle's edge in 4 min., 55 sec.; at North Little Rock...
...shares. Last fall in an optimistic moment, the Exchange devised a system of FLASH quotations for use whenever the ticker got five minutes behind. Last week it had a chance to use it for the first time. FLASH-X (U. S. Steel) 49⅞. FLASH-A (Anaconda Copper) 28. FLASH-T (American Tel & Tel) 140½. When the clay's closing bell bonged, brokers had enjoyed the first million-share day since May, Dow-Jones industrial averages were up a thumping five points to 118.6 (1938 low: 98.95; 1937 high...
...feed to the starving livestock. The Battaglia del Grano, the Wheat Battle, of 1938 is lost. Three-fourths of Italy's bread requirements will have to be bought abroad with "old, the gold wrung from meagre exports and the tourist trade, the gold earmarked for coal, oil, steel, copper, nickel, tin -for a thousand commodities Italy lacks and must have to swagger and grab and fight like a great power...
...service its sizable debt. Sweden and Finland are the only two nations with orthodox balanced budgets. Almost self-sufficient in raw materials except for wheat, rice and steel, Peru enjoys a favorable foreign trade balance ($35,400,000 in 1936) largely through extensive exports of cotton, sugar, silver, oil, copper, vanadium and the high-smelling guano (bird manure). Social reforms were pushed by the late, ironfisted, dapper little President Augusto Bernardino Leguia (1919-30), who borrowed heavily to build roads, improve sanitation and ease the lot of Peru's predominantly Indian population. Wide-girthed President Oscar Raimundo Benavides...
Little short of incredible were figures presented to the United States Senate yesterday demonstrating Japan's dependence upon America for the raw materials of war. From us she buys 60 per cent of her oil, 90 per cent of her copper, 91 per cent of her automobiles and parts, more than 40 per cent of her pig iron, and nearly 50 per cent of her machinery and engines. In the light of our sanctimonious concern for the welfare of the Chinese, these facts are amazing indeed...