Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Then, as though suddenly abashed, donor Hayden took refuge aboard the Rex, sailed on a ten-week trip to Africa to have a look at British copper mines including financially sensational Roan Antelope...
...appointed Secretary of the Treasury. Col. House, who could not stand Washington's summer heat even when Woodrow Wilson was in the White House, wanted no job for his contribution to the Roosevelt war chest. Neither, according to report, did rich, affable, unassuming Manhattan Lawyer Frank Walker, Anaconda Copper's lawyer. But because Mr. Walker is smart and useful President Roosevelt gave him two anyway, first as treasurer of the Democratic National Committee, and, in July, as secretary of something called the Council of Recovery. This body, composed of key men in the recovery program, meets Tuesdays...
...most vital and widely detested tax, that on salt. To collect this tax Dr. Kung's brother-in-law and predecessor as Finance Minister, famed T. V. Soong, organized a special army of "salt tax troops" and was believed to have screwed out of the peasantry the last copper cash that they would pay without rebellion...
...year for seven years Father Hub-bard has gone to explore this lurid peninsula, accompanied by three or four husky footballers. He has burned off his shoes scrambling up the sides of volcanoes which other scientists had thought extinct, has gone down inside them to find he could melt copper twelve inches below the lava surface. Marooned by storms, he has used his sled dogs for food. In 1930 he took the first pictures of Aniakchak; the next year, with a pilot, he made the first airplane flight over it (narrowly escaping death when air currents rushing into the volcano...
...highest in three years. Of last year's world production of 160,000,000 oz., 102,000,000 oz. were mined by six U. S. companies (American Smelting & Refining, American Metal, U. S. Smelting, Cerro de Fasco, Anaconda, Phelps Dodge) who dig silver as a by-product of copper mining. Most of the U. S. output is usually exported to China and India. Normally stocks of silver in Manhattan run from...