Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...twelve new nations from three old empires . . . the increase of standing armies from two to five million men . . . revolution in China . . . agitations in India . . . Russia's dumping . . . gigantic overproduction of rubber in the Indies, of sugar in Cuba, of coffee in Brazil, of cocoa in Ecuador, of copper in the Congo, of lead in Burma, of zinc in Australia, of oil in the U. S. . . . new wheatlands in the Argentine, new cotton lands in Egypt . . . revolutions in Spain, Portugal, Brazil, the Argentine, Peru, Ecuador, Siam . . . repudiation of debts.. . . Declared President Hoover: "The United States did not bring this...
That "rationalization" (sternly applied coordination) is a crying need in Russia. every Russian knows. Horrible-example-of-last-week was an official announcement in the Government organ Za Industri-alizatsia! ("For Industrialization!") that the "World's Largest Copper Plant" on the shores of Lake Balkhazh (2,000 mi. from Moscow in the howling depths of Asia) will have to be "indefinitely conserved" (abandoned...
...upping bill. He is typical of that class of Democratic Senators who denounce the Republican policy of protection in general and then support it on local specifications. He joined the Democratic combination that log-rolled into the Revenue Bill the oil and coal duties but stood out against the copper and lumber items which were gotten in by similar methods. Into his mouth during the 1930 tariff fight Democratic Pressagent Charles Michelson put many a thunderous phrase against the Hawley-Smoot Act which today sounds hollow and insincere. He has also been active for Federal relief for the growers...
...machine to throw a fishnet far out to sea, a trolley to carry him down the mountainside. From a savage whom he tries to make his Man Friday, who escapes after Fairbanks has shown him the white man's leg-scissor hold, toehold, and hammerlock, he obtains zinc and copper (cheerfully left unexplained) and two radio tubes the savage With these and several score handmade batteries, he makes a radio set, listens happily to news of traffic deaths, business suicides, cosmetics and alimony...
...partnership in a big old Manhattan brokerage firm, a house, wife & children in Yonkers, a fat income, fat prospects. On the verge of middle age he still had his health and good looks. But he had fallen in love with Sylvia March Brownlow Wickliffe, pet-named June. A luscious copper-brunette, she fired Sherrill's blood, let him buy her presents, but for a long time would not give him what he wanted. When she became his mistress, he soon found her a hard one. Business troubles, his wife, a sick child, even golf...