Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Omit all tariff schedules including those on coal, oil and copper...
...Foard of West Virginia left Huanuco, Peru in November to explore the unknown headwaters of the Paute River in Southern Ecuador, to gather data for Walsh's doctorate. For two years they had been in Oroya, Peru on the staff of New York's Cerro de Pasco Copper Corp...
...been short as much as 50,000 shares at one time, "but right now my short accounts are between 12,000 and 15,000 shares." But far more interesting to the committee than his short operations was his story of a $32,000,000 bull pool in Anaconda Copper just before the 1929 crash...
This scene occurred in 1931. Kreuger, failing to get a match monopoly in Italy, needed funds. From an Italian engraver he got copper plates that bore the likeness of an Italian Government bond. On a piece of paper he sketched the way he would like an English-worded statement printed. He furtively took the plates to a Stockholm printer. The printer, knowing Kreuger's affairs were vast, did not become suspicious when he was asked to print 42 bonds, each of ?500,000 denomination. Kreuger took the counterfeits, forged on them the name of E. Drelli, gave them...
More fortunate were the producers of copper, far less numerous, of course, than sugar and rubbermen. After almost breaking up, a world conference in New York agreed to curtail production from 26½% of capacity...