Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Explosives. Extremely dangerous are the dynamite-caps or detonators used for blasting in mines. Last year a Baltimore woman, opening the door of a furnace, was struck in the breast by a copper pellet no bigger than a pinhead, which killed her. Investigation showed that the pellet had come from a detonator, no doubt left in the coal by a miner; that such detonators not only hurl a pellet at 6,000 ft. per sec. (three times the speed of a rifle bullet) but throw hundreds of minute shreds of copper, each able to penetrate nearly a millimetre of brass...
...surface, but it is only in the Sudbury ore that ample supplies of pure nickel can be cheaply extracted from the other elements found in company with it. Even at Sudbury, "cheap" is a relative term, for nickel sells at about 35? per lb., compared with aluminum at 20?, copper at 9?, steel at 2?. Other useful ingredients in Sudbury ore are copper, platinum, gold and silver. Roughly speaking, a ton of Sudbury ore yields 95 lb. of copper, 47 lb. of nickel, and fractional ounces of precious metals. On a dollar basis, International gets...
Basis for Nickel's success-and also the reason why it is the international nickel company-is the chemical process for separating the copper from the nickel. Two small U. S. companies had the process, but very little nickel; Canada had plenty of nickel but no process. In 1902 Charles Schwab, now Bethlehem Steel's board chairman, helped to promote a merger of the U. S. and Canadian companies. In 1929 the major competitive mine in the Sudbury area was absorbed, and International Nickel reached its present form...
Because they are convinced that the Soviet Government, the Munitions Trust and other mysterious agglomerations pretty much dictate what is printed in Paris' larger papers, many Frenchmen buy daily for a copper or two thrilling Rightist sheetlets which hurl political dirt, libel and "inside dope" with such abandon that their passionate editors give at least the impression of sincerity. Yelped one such editor last week: "Shoot down like dogs the 160 Senators who want to suppress the Fascist Leagues!" Screamed another: "I take the responsibility for killing Leon Blum [Socialist Party Leader...
...about one-half as much money as the railroads lost during the first nine months of the year. ¶ Homestake Mining (which, at $420, is the highest priced common stock on the New York Exchange) gave each employe a $100 Christmas bonus. ¶ Calumet & Hecla (Michigan copper...