Word: lessing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thousand words were hurled. Mr. Aldrich mailed to stockholders a 69-page pamphlet summing up Mr. Rockefeller Jr.'s objections to Col. Stewart and reviewing in great detail the Stewart conduct for the past seven years. Col. Stewart immediately flayed the Aldrich pamphlet as "a cunningly drawn document . . . nothing less than cowardly and dastardly libel...
Supply & Demand. The pleasing posi-tion of copper may well be contrasted with the less pleasing position of oil. Oil has notably suffered from overproduction. Copper has neatly adjusted its supply to its demand...
...tons, and 54,992 tons were exported. In November the output was 155,448 tons while domestic plus export demand totaled approximately 149,000 tons. Consumption has so closely equalled production that on Dec. i, reserve stocks of refined copper were down to 52,153 tons-less than a two-week supply. Nearly every U. S. copper refinery is running at capacity, domestic demand shows no lessening, and though exports declined during the latter part of 1928 it is believed that the present year will see a considerable increase in foreign buying...
Companies. Leading U. S. copper producers are Kennecott and Anaconda. The Kennecott corporation is the largest copper producing organization in the world,* though the mines owned by the original Kennecott company produce less than 8% of the present production of Kennecott and its subsidiaries and associates. The two large children of the small Kennecott parent are Utah Copper Co. (Guggenheim) and Braden Copper Mines Co., located in the Province of O'Higgins, Chile. In 1927 these companies produced 235.358 tons of copper, about 13½% of the world's total production. Other companies indirectly controlled produced an additional 179,636 tons...
...books, dog stories are probably the least fruitful of results for a reviewer. Readers are divided up into the more or less air-tight groups of those that like them and those that do not, and by now the latter have already turned to another article. For the benefit of the others, "Bugle" is one of the better dog stories. It deals with the adventures attendant upon the life of a hunting dog in the wilder regions of the West, and there is no lack of action in the incidents leading up to a stirring climax in the fight with...