Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fair site on Long Island, they bored a narrow well 50 ft. deep, lined it with double steel tubing, stoppered it at the bottom with concrete and sand. The capsule, a cartridge seven and a half feet long, was made of a Westinghouse nickel and silver alloy copper, lined with Pyrex glass, emptied of air, filled with inert nitrogen. Among the objects which went into it were a woman's hat, razor, can opener, fountain pen, pencil, tobacco pouch with zipper, pipe, tobacco, cigarets, camera, eyeglasses, toothbrush; cosmetics, textiles, metals and alloys, coal, building materials, synthetic plastics, seeds; dictionaries...
University of Pennsylvania Alumnus William Guggenheim, copper tycoon, chronic writer-to-the-papers, 71 -year-old songwriter (You're a Glamour Girl, Crumbs of Love), caught wind of a U. of P. plan to award Franklin Roosevelt an honorary degree. To President Thomas Sovereign Gates, onetime Morgan partner, he sent an indignant wire, declaring that he believed the "vast majority of our 40,000 or more alumni, who are Willkie-for-President men," would be as shocked as he, hoping President Gates would "rectify what must be an unintentional mistake...
Sick, volatile and afraid of what Washington may do is the copper industry. But last week the copper market enjoyed its busiest day on record, selling 113,106 tons (previous record: 106,101 tons, July 21, 1936). Part of this was due to a price increase. As usual the price booster was Copperman No. 3, Phelps Dodge's Louis S. Cates, who moved the market up ½? a pound to 11½?. Booster Gates has been wrong on his market many times, and no Phelps Dodge price sticks until Coppermen 1 and 2, Anaconda's Cornelius F. Kelley...
...oysters. Stronghold of the private company is Long Island, which produces 25%. Cultivated oysters bring the higher prices. The inlets of Long Island shelter them from the high wind and rough weather which often smother them with sand, feed them enough fresh water to supply the copper and other minerals that tasty oysters need...
...covered with long grass outside the camp. They also found a hidden radio room, equipped with a homemade receiver and still uncompleted transmitter. Wet cells for the radio had been made from fruit jars stolen from a train on which the prisoners had been taken to camp. Zinc and copper had been taken from unfinished plumbing. Other parts were improvised from an old house-telephone system. But radio tubes and a large dry cell were not homemade-someone had smuggled them...