Word: coppers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...cash & carry basis. As soon as the President proclaimed the existence of a foreign war, no goods consigned to belligerents could leave U. S. ports until the buyers had acquired full title to them. At his discretion the President could name war-useful materials other than munitions (cotton, steel, copper, oil), which U. S. ships would be forbidden to carry even for cash...
...battle by Hearst for his publishing empire was fought in Manhattan. He grappled for an Eastern footing with Joseph Pulitzer and his old model, Pulitzer's sensational World. Gentle Mrs. Phoebe Apperson Hearst, whose fortune was always at her beloved son's disposal, sold her Anaconda copper shares for $7,500,000 to finance this New York struggle. But it was in San Francisco that Hearst first proved his genius for mass publishing and of that genius last week's anniversary Examiner rehearsed dazzling examples...
...permit divorces after six weeks' residence. For Nevada's boosters, their State's chief asset, after low taxes, is its virginity. After they have talked about its transcontinental rail, plane and bus services; its cheap power from Boulder Dam; its natural resources of gold, silver, copper, zinc and lead, from comparatively old Virginia City, Mountain City, Goldfield and the scattered "ghost towns," to the great open pit mines at Ely and such recent strikes as Jumbo in the northwest; its sheep and cattle; its agricultural industries (alfalfa, turkeys, cantaloupes) in the Fallen irrigation district; its abundant game...
Correspondents of the United Press at Gibraltar and of the Associated Press at Lisbon reported last week that beauteous, copper-haired Spanish Cinemactress Rosita Diaz, who once sat naked in a bathtub for nine hours during a Hollywood film-shooting, had been shot as a radical spy by the Whites. This made big news. Rosita's picture was splashed over the world's press. At week's end a Hollywood friend sent a cautious cablegram to Segovia saying she had heard that Rosita had been in "a serious accident." Back came a cablegram signed "Rosita" saying...
Seasoned writers ought to be willing and able to turn trained hands to any literary job; but few can or will. Of this able minority, Robert Graves is an encouraging example. He has written poetry, biography, autobiography, criticism, short stories, historical novels; he has rewritten David Copper field, has done books on the meaning of dreams, the English ballad, the future of swearing. Because his last two books (I, Claudius, Claudius the God) were on Roman history and sold well in England and the U. S., readers might have expected him to follow up his success with more along...