Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Copper Boom. In Indianola, Miss., a restaurateur offered to sell a cup of coffee for an out-of-date Indianhead penny, discovered that a local coin collector had 2,000 of them for sale at three for a nickel...
...occasion being Marais's 100th broadcast, there were other festal features. Marais fans, invited to attend, came in such numbers that NBC had to put on the show in its new, copper-lined theater. The Consul of the Union of South Africa came and testified that the "liedjies" (little songs) of Josef Marais brought back to him the "breath of the veld...
...offspring attracted attention when: in 1911 daughter Julia Steele French eloped with the family chauffeur; in 1923 son Francis Ormond French (whose daughter, Ellen, married John Jacob Astor in 1934) became a cab driver, in 1938 applied for a WPA job. Left. By the late Simon Guggenheim, copper tycoon: to the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the bulk of his estate, not yet estimated; to his widow, Olga Hirsh Guggenheim, a $100,000 annuity from a $2,000,000 trust fund; to numerous relatives, friends, institutions, about...
...days Lawyer J. R. Stirrett cooled his heels in the offices of International Nickel Co. in Copper Cliff, Ont.-unable to get past the reception desk to transact some business. The cooler his heels got, the hotter he got under the collar...
...Because silver is the best electrical conductor and the rearming U.S. will be short some 770,000 tons of copper next year, the 100,000 tons of Treasury bullion might well be largely drawn into wire and installed in new defense plants this winter to save some 75,000 tons of copper. So suggested Robert E. McConnell at a convention of chemical engineers. Copper is priced at 12? a lb., silver around $10 a Ib. depending on when it was bought; but defense plants are well guarded and their wires full of deadly high voltages 24 hours a day. After...