Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While hotspots from coast-to-coast observed moments of silence in her memory, while Broadway pitchmen hawked little copper medals stamped with her image and a Hollywood boy was gnawed by a 15½-in. rat which crept up his pants during a memorial revival of one of her pictures, the late Jean Harlow went to her last rest last week in a manner which has come to be regarded by the film colony as quiet, conventional good taste. With a reliable force of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer company detectives on guard to see that there was no repetition...
...tilted at a normal airplane glide angle. On the bottom rests a small model of a commercial plane which is to be tested for such things as controllability. As the air rushes into the tunnel, the model takes off, flies completely free. Trailing from it is a thread-like copper wire through which the operator can control ailerons and rudders, see how the ship obeys them...
Rubber statistics are by no means so elastic as cocoa's, and rubber has slumped only about 25%, a bad break last week caused by announcement of Nazi restrictions on German imports carrying prices below 21? per lb. Meantime tin had tumbled from 67? to 54? per lb., copper from 16½? t012...
...main difficulties were getting the right people to talk (the wrong ones talked too much), getting permission to visit such points of interest as Southern coal mines, Butte copper mines. Artist and writer acquaintances talked freely but about two most vital subjects, Southern history and Negroes, they seemed "inhuman, almost mad." When he asked permission to go down in a coal mine the owner said: "We are only one company, and we don't wish to monopolize this gentleman's time. Why don't you go to another company and ask them to show you their mines...
British Columbians were last week more optimistic than the Dominion. The Yukon's $200,000,000 spate of gold has now become a mere $100,000 yearly trickle, but chilly Yukon's 207,076 sq. mi. are rich with uncut timber, unexploited copper, lead, coal, fish, game. These resources have been landlocked by the lack of railroads, which can presumably be promoted more easily in Vancouver than in Ottawa...