Word: metalic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Author, whose real name is at present Mrs. William Rose Benét, gained her literary reputation when she published, in 1921, a book of poems called Nets to Catch the Wind. After Black Armour, more poetry, she poured into a mold of prose the fluent and shining metal of her talent for metaphor. Jennifer Lorn was her first novel; The Orphan Angel and The Venetian Glass Nephew its successors. Author Wylie, her publishers announce with a show of pride, spent less than three months in writing her latest novel. This is an admission less damaging than it appears...
...shoes and memories in his head. His name is Bill Martin. He is a mine caretaker, sometimes a sheepherder, virtually a beggar. When he was young, he says, he prospected for silver and copper with a fellow called Bill Clark, formally named William A. Clark. Together they found metal, a lot of metal. Bill Martin drank up and gambled away his share. But not Bill Clark, who kept his head, went into politics, went to the U. S. Senate, built an extravagant palace full of works of art on Fifth Avenue, way off in New York. Three years ago, Senator...
...miles northeast of London. Capable of carrying 20 persons, the ship was taken up by Squadron Leader J. Noakes and one mechanic, each wearing a parachute strapped to his back. The Inflexible has a wing spread of 150 feet and weighs fifteen tons-the world's largest all-metal monoplane. Built on the Air Ministry's orders, her purpose is a secret...
American Smelting & Refining Co. (Onetime [1907-13] Senator Simon Guggenheim is president)-$15,477,770. Previous year: $17,760,721. "The showing of earnings is quite satisfactory, in view of the fact that metal prices were lower in 1927 than in 1926, and your company is now a substantial miner of lead, zinc, copper and silver," soothed President Guggenheim...
President Magnus Washington Alexander of the National Industrial Conference Board declared last week to a Cincinnati audience of the National Metal Trades Association that one-ninth of 1% of the corporations of the U. S. (95 in number) made a net income in 1925 of $5,000,000 or more apiece, and that the total profits of these 95 corporations accounted for 44.5% of the industrial net income of the nation. The other 89,579 U. S. corporations divided up the rest of the nation's industrial profits. The 95 corporations earned 25% more in 1925 than...