Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Copper went last week to /7?a pound, up from a January low of 5?. Even hogs (which started last summer's boom and then dropped it) decided to move together in the right direction. More important than wheat, corn or cattle, hogs provide 12?of each farm dollar...
...surprised to find several revenue agents, reading old magazines, in possession of the premises. "I'm the receiver," announced Mr. Duffy. "Well," said the agents, "look what you received." Inside the spacious house, vacant for years but well cared for, Mr. Duffy was dazzled to behold the burnished copper and carefully painted ironwork of a 5,000-gal. alcohol still, capable of filling a battery of 19-bbl. vats daily. Downstairs was a 5,000-gal. molasses vat. Throughout the house, parquet flooring and plate glass mirrors had been scrupulously polished. The control room for this $100,000 plant...
...theoretical effec- tiveness is the heat of a candle eight miles away. The amplifier reacts to direct electrical currents as small as one-five-billionths of an ampere or, said plump Dr. Free at the fog-eye demonstration, "about what is produced in your own pocket by carrying copper and silver money to gether." Commander Macneil, no exaggerator, believes that his fog-eye "is unquestionably the greatest single invention for safety of life at sea ever yet achieved, with the arguable exception of radio which, however, cannot detect icebergs or lighthouses or ships unequipped with (or not using) their radio...
...ordinary commodity is silver. To half the world's population (chiefly the Orient) it represents money and wealth. To the other half of the world it is merely a useful metal like copper or nickel. The reason that the price of silver fell from over 50? in 1929 to around 25? at the first of this year is partly that some countries such as Russia and French Indo-China have melted up part of their silver money and sold it; partly it is that less silverware is being made...
...sugar (duty paid) to 3 3/10? a pound compared to less than 2¾? in February. If his company can make an extra ½? a pound on its annual output of about one billion pounds it will make an extra $5,000,000 profit.* Rubber, sugar, silk, copper, silver, wheat, corn, coffee, meat, hides, wool, cotton, cocoa-each one in a long, long list of commodities last week brought just such startling dreams of profits to manufacturers, traders, producers, to states and to countries in all quarters of the globe...