Word: koppers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unscrupulously, said would-be rivals. Profits were plowed back into the business-$70,000,000 of them had gone back in by 1917. The market value of its stock, largely Mellon owned, was $150,000,000. Just at the beginning of the War Mellon also bought Kopper Co. which turned into a gold mine with the war demand for coal tar products for explosives. Millions added to millions-the best part of the $2,000,000,000 fortune of the Mellons had already been assembled. In 1921 Pennsylvania's politicians pressed Mr. Harding to name "America's second...