Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Isabella Greenway. She operates large copper interests in Arizona left her by her late husband. Longtime intimate of the Roosevelts. she was a bridesmaid when they were married in Manhattan on St. Patrick's Day 1905 in the presence of T. R. and to the accompaniment of a roaring Tammany parade outside. After attending fashionable Miss Spence's and Miss Chapin's Schools in Manhattan, she married aged 19. Four years later she found herself widowed, with two children, and on her way to homestead in New Mexico's Burro Mountains. When Copperman Greenway married her she was a full...
...Health, But that did not settle the question about keeping healthy & wise. Professor Henry Clapp Sherman of Columbia University settled that point. Babies are born with sufficient iron and copper in their blood and livers to keep going for quite a while. But calcium, which babies need for bones, they must get from mother's or a cow's milk. If a baby takes too much calcium from its mother. she must replenish her supply by eating calcium-bearing foods. Otherwise her teeth may decay, her bones ache, her resistance to disease decline. Thus calcium (lime) is the mineral which...
...face as wrinkled as a walnut, Nathan Amster says he is "in the financial business." He emigrated to the U. S. at 20, prospected in West Virginia coal fields, drifted west, developed rich copper claims. Wall Street has known him as an independent financier and market operator. He was one of the first men to bull Boston & Maine during the early stages of its rehabilitation. Always keenly aware of the value of publicity, he once advocated consolidation of all U. S. railroads into one huge system...
...Utah voters summarily retired for Democrat Elbert D. Thomas professor of political sciences at the State University. The defeat of 70-year-old Senator Smoot whose name adorns the discredited Republican tariff, was attributed in part to his failure to get something done at Washington to up silver and copper prices...
...Electrolytic iron resists corrosion, but is difficult to make. Chromium alloyed with iron makes "rustless iron." "Stainless" steel contains iron, carbon and chromium. But for a multitude of uses a coating over the iron or steel objects suffices. Paint serves well in many places, as does zinc (galvanizing), tin, copper, lead, concrete. Nickel does not tarnish readily, resists corrosion, has high lustre, is hard, and has long been used to plate iron & steel. In all those qualities chromium surpasses nickel. When Professor Fink and others showed how chromium could be electroplated manufacturers quickly adopted chromium plating for electrotypes, motor...