Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mere enumeration of the different minerals but feebly describes their outstanding quality," said Professor Charles Palache, curator of the Museum, "Of the nine cuprates (oxide of copper), one is probably the finest specimen of this mineral ever found anywhere...
...July delivery to $1.25 for June delivery. Gasoline sold at from 5.78? to 5.98? per gal. Trading in oil and gasoline brought the number of commodities bought & sold on U. S. Exchanges to 33. The others: wheat, corn, rye. oats, sugar, coffee, cotton, silk, rubber, hides, butter, eggs, copper, zinc, tin, lead, rice, barley, lard, ribs, provisions, potatoes, cotton seed, flour, hay, flaxseed, millseeds, cocoa, wool, tops, grain sorghums, sugar bags...
...this fellow he not only hated prunes he wanted to ABOLISH them to crush the very germ out and gee whiz we had a swell machine on the stage with colored lights and the pits came out the end like bullets out of a machine-gun against a copper gong. . . . Bill Glackens* always was the villain, and he comes on with a long mustache covered with furs looking rich as hell. Lucy Moore spurns him 'cause he wants the machine as a prune pitter to make pies but wait a minute you haven't heard anything there...
Calumet & Hecla history goes back to a day before the Civil War when a surveyor named Edwin James Hulbert found a rich vein of copper lode called "conglomerate" because the ore was a cemented mass of pebbles containing pure copper. Hulbert recalled that Boston's famed Naturalist Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz had visited the district, showed interest in scattered pieces of conglomerate. Hulbert hastened to Boston, enlisted such glittering names-Higginson, Hunnewell, Livermore, Agassiz, Quincy Adams Shaw, Horatio Bigelow-that his venture became known as the copper company with a Harvard accent. The first shaft was sunk...
Same year Surveyor Hulbert sank his first shaft, last week's Saunders Medalist was born to a miner in Ontario. Brought to the Michigan Copper Country in infancy, James MacNaughton started work at 11, carrying water on the C. & H. coal docks, was later a coal-weigher, then a switchman. He attended University of Michigan, went back to C. & H. a white-collar engineer. For ten years he managed Michigan's richest iron mine, returned once more to C. & H. 33 years ago and has never left it since, rising by traditional stages to the presidency...