Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Until 1220 when Alchemist Albertus Magnus discovered arsenic, mankind knew only ten elements-carbon, sulphur, gold, silver, copper, iron, lead, tin, antimony and mercury. In the next 500 years alchemists discovered only bismuth, zinc and phosphorus. Then scientific chemistry began By 1900, before which time perspicacious Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleyeff figured that there must be 92 elements on earth, no more, no less, chemists had isolated 83. Last discovery of a tangible element, which could be handled and weighed, occurred in 1926 when Professor B. Smith Hopkins of the University of Illinois found Element No. 61 among some rare earths...
Horse chestnuts or pieces of potato carried in the pocket, brass or copper rings on the fingers, or copper plates in the shoes to prevent rheumatism...
...drove up to the White House portico. First to step down from his limousine was M. Emile Francqui, head of Belgium's largest bank, the Société Générale de Belgique. Next was M. Camilla Gutt, of Belgium's great Katanga Copper Company in the Congo. Third was their fellow Tycoon Etienne Allard and fourth was a distinguished young member of the Belgian nobility, Count Philippe d'Arschot. Escorted by Ambassador May and members of his staff, they had come to carry out an ancient rite, to which Belgium, of all nations...
...Francqui was familiar with the White House and its portals. Sent to the Congo as a youth he helped secure for Belgium the vast territory that now holds her famed copper mines. A born empire builder. Emile Francqui was soon serving his country elsewhere. In China where he went as economic adviser to the Government he met a young U. S. engineer named Herbert Hoover. Some years later, during the World War, he was Herbert Hoover's chief coadjutor in distributing Belgian relief. After the War his contacts with the U. S. multiplied. He was a member...
Such interchanges went on constantly during the war-always of course through a neutral intermediary. (The amenities of warfare must be observed, even at some inconvenience.) Throughout the war English and French industries maintained to Germany a steady stream of glycerin (or explosives), nickel, copper, oil, and rubber. Germany even returned the compliment: she sent France iron and steel and magnetos for gasoline engines. This constant traffic went on during the war via Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Switzerland, Spain, or Holland, by the simple process of transshipment--enemy to neutral to enemy...