Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...list of defendants read like a Who's Who of the industry. Named in the indictment were Anaconda American Brass, Phelps Dodge Copper Products, Chase Brass & Copper, Revere Copper & Brass, the Cerro Corp.. Bridgeport Brass, the Scovill Manufacturing Co., Calumet & Hecla. Mueller Brass, Triangle Conduit & Cable and the Progress Manufacturing...
...Wall Street. To raise working capital in a business where inventories are high and accounts receivable often precariously higher, Schwartz has brought off some imaginative deals. Two years ago, Jonathan Logan merged with Montana's moribund Butte Copper & Zinc Co., took over its assets, earned $2,700,000 after taxes. Through Butte, Jonathan Logan got a listing on the New York Exchange (current trading symbol: JOL), became the first ladies' ready-to-wear maker to make the Big Board. The highly competitive garment business had been suspicious of "going public" because that requires a company to publish intimate...
...dryly astute Superintendent Quilt (Peter Sellers) of Scotland Yard, the answer is wryly affirmative and highly sinister. It seems that an international ring of Mukkinese battle-horn smugglers has heisted a Mukkinese battle horn from a museum in London. Description of stolen article: about 20 feet of antique copper plumbing, positively pimpled with rubies and emeralds. Looks like an anaconda necking with a nose cone, sounds like a hippo with gastritis, contains a slot for used razor blades...
...fire reminds him of the painting In which a shaft of sun rests upon a blank of polished copper; In the mirror's ground the Greek bride floats, Dark in all that brightness, And in that mirror Warm...
Frontier Foothold. It was no ordinary Indian pueblo. Out of the dirt came objects that had been used by 16th century Spaniards: bits of chain mail, parts of a helmet, an iron cannon ball, a carved piece of bone, a bronze candlestick base and the cover of a copper vessel probably used in celebrating Mass. Further digging exposed the plan of the old plaza, including the tracks of two dogs that had run across it once, at a time when rain turned the soil...