Word: mines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...look of the bird there were several others who had obeyed that impulse. I saw another woman pluck one before I did. Mine was only half a feather and it cost me 30s., but it was worth...
...baptized bill after bill with "Franklin D. Roosevelt." Not one important bill left by Congress did he veto. Proudest signing of the week was that of the Guffey Coal Bill attended by a host of Congressional godfathers, watched over by John L. Lewis and other officers of the United Mine Workers and followed at once by 1) steps to call off the coal strike scheduled for Sept. 24 and 2) a suit filed by Carter Coal Co. of Washington, D. C. challenging the constitutionality...
This caused the Prime Minister to tell the House with that perfect aplomb which never leaves Stanley Baldwin: "Mr. Morgan is an old personal friend of mine with whom I have stayed in New York. He always comes to see me when he is in this country. I hope he will continue to do so." Meanwhile New York Times Correspondent Ferdinand Kuhn Jr. cabled : "Persons who attended the royal garden party last week noticed the almost affectionate greetings that Mr. Morgan received from the King and Queen. He had waited patiently at the end of a long line of Dominion...
...business years, so unexciting that Biographer Hagedorn fills in the gaps with wordy descriptions of Montana scenery, gave him little experience for the great problems he was to face: he ran a coal yard, made about $5,000 a year, married quietly and happily, did a little gambling in mining claims on the side. Inspired by the reckless career of F. Augustus Heinze, who was matching wits with Butte copper kings at the age of 21, Thompson traveled East to peddle his claims. Wall Street would not listen, State Street was almost as inhospitable, and he was nearly...
Thompson's holdings were scattered from Cobalt Lake, Canada to Peru. They included Inspiration Mine in Arizona and Indian Motorcycle Co. He financed lead, zinc and coal mines, street railways, handled the sensational Midvale Steel financing during the War when the stock rose from 290 to 500. He refinanced American Woolen Co. and Tobacco Products Co., launched Cuban Cane Sugar Co., got control of Pierce Arrow Motor Car Co., organized Submarine Boat Corp. and the Wright-Martin Aeroplane Co. Fat, good-natured, bald, a tireless worker, a devoted family man, Thompson chewed tobacco, underpaid his employes...