Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sheriff's deputies, state police and FBI agents. As best they could, the investigators reconstructed the murderer's moves. The intruder, it seemed, had entered the 17-room mansion by way of a flagstone patio on the lake side of the house, slashed an opening in a copper-screen door, then used a glass cutter to remove a pane in the French door. The killer reached through the hole to open the door from the inside, then crossed the slate-covered floor, climbed the 18-step staircase, walked stealthily past the open door of Mark Percy...
Ginter is fairly typical. In a 250-mile radius of Prince George, miners are digging for mercury and steel-hardening molybdenum, copper and zinc. At least 125 mining-company whirlybirds are chopping the mountain air in the hunt for minerals. In the past three months alone, 130 mining companies have been formed, mostly to mine the craze for penny dreadfuls on the frantic Vancouver Stock Exchange, where, since trading opens at 6 a.m. to be on schedule with Toronto and New York, it is not uncommon to see tuxedoed partygoers stagger in for a fling of late action...
Wall Street's bulls like to joke that "no Fifth Avenue mansions have been built by bears." The bulls are wrong. Though most investment profits have indeed been made on upswing, Bernard Baruch bagged one of his first fortunes by bearishly selling short in Amalgamated Copper in 1901, and Joseph P. Kennedy earned more than $1,000,000 by short-selling in 1929-30. Among the other famous bears who got into the honey in the Depression were Tom Bragg and "Sell 'em Ben" Smith. One day Smith picked up a phone to make a call, but Bragg...
...should be found. Later, the Sultan gave Phillips two offshore oil concessions, one of which he sold to a group headed by Wintershall A.G. of West Germany, keeping a 5% royalty. The West German firms are about to start seismic soundings. This year Phillips also acquired from the Sultan copper-mining and commercial fishing rights in Oman...
...Copper Kettle, Aspen, Colo. One of the best country restaurants in the U.S. No choice, but a different international cuisine each...