Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...domestic wheat-growing which may set an example at London. Major oil producers met in Washington fortnight ago, recommended action to the White House which would hold the U. S. flow down to 2,000,000 bbl. per day. Many have been the conferences between producers of copper, nitrate and rubber during the last several years in vain attempts to control output, raise prices. At London such attempts may become accomplishments...
...British mining engineer and promoter, chairman of the Association of British Creditors of Russia ($900,000,000), bitter antiCommunist; of pneumonia; in London. After the Russian revolution he plotted, fought, howled in vain for his Russo-Asiatic Consolidated Mining Trust's $280,000,000 stake in Russian copper, zinc, lead and coal. In 1923 he recouped by getting a monopoly on Turkish imports and exports. Plump, dapper and grey, he sat behind David Lloyd George at The Hague as his adviser on Russian economics...
...each new marking card with the hope of finding a familiar name, there is a decided monotony in the exhibition. Presumably not too serious an effort was made to get in touch with all students of Harvard and Radcliffe who dabble in oils or delight in making scratches on copper plates, or in drawing sketches of surrounding objects during lecture hours. It is unfortunate that the Society neglected to do this, for there are undoubtedly many excellent examples, the making of undergraduates, which are now stowed away in closets or hanging over mantlepieces...
Silver and copper moved upward in cash trading with the markets closed. Diamonds, silk and imported rugs all advanced, but dealers preferred to hold their stocks lest they should not be able to replace them except at higher prices...
...Copper ashtrays inscribed, "H 36," will be given to each member of the class as a souvenir. Cigarettes and tobacco will be on every table. The committee has decided not to supply pipes this year, as satisfactory pipes are too expensive...