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While consumers waited, producers conferred. In Manhattan was M. Fernand Pisart, managing director of the Societé Génèrale des Minerals, the Belgian outlet lor the Katanga mines of Africa. Although producers insisted M. Pisart's visit was merely a routine one, many observers interpreted it as a crisis in the affairs of Copper Exporters, Inc., international price-controlling combine. When Copper Exporters was organized, its president Cornelius Kelley of Anaconda Copper Mining Co. optimistically stated that its purpose was to keep the price adjusted to day-to-day conditions in Europe. European consumers, long unwilling...
...crashed the Fitzsimmons-Jeffries fight (1899) by exchanging a basket of stage money lor a basket of tickets. He saw the Jimmy Gardiner-Tommy Devine fight in a Milwaukee Armory (1903) from a steel girder to which he strapped himself early in the morning before the fight. He crashed the Dempsey-Gibbons fight in Shelby, Montana (1923), by riding into the hot arena in a covered ice wagon...
Pay?to William J. Locke, author, $50,000 from Joseph M. Schenck for one story lor Norma Talmadge, Schenck's wife. To Erich Von Stroheim?$285,000 and 10 weeks' time allowance to make Queen Kelly, starring Gloria Swanson...
...What d'you th-" (Then, stammering, as he sees by whom he is addressed) :"I . . . . I mean . . . . I am laying a kerbstone." Exalted Personage (preparing to canter urbanely away): "A kerbstone? Ah, a useful improvement." Laborer Rowlands (wiping cold sweat from his brow, as the hoofbeats recede): "Lor! 'Is Majesty...
Came the army to Slough on the very outskirts of London. Here Labor sympathisers held a picture show lor the weary old "soldiers" of the army, while the local maidens, also Labor, staged a dance for the younger set, sore feet...