Word: mines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...perfect flowering of the giddy '20s, he arrived from Nevada with a small fortune from promoting mining stocks, hired a press agent and proceeded to splurge. He gave banquets for bigwigs, planned a $50,000,000 corporation with Charles Lindbergh as president to control the nation's airways,* had a nasty squabble with Claude Neon (lights) over patents, ended a spectacular sally into prizefight promotion by himself trying to knock out Gene Tunney. He also turned a pretty penny floating and promoting mine stocks, climax of which was the forming in 1928 of an investment trust, Metal & Mining...
International's biggest producer is the Frood Mine near Sudbury, Ont., discovered by Prospector Thomas Frood, who sold his claim for $30,000. Deep beneath tall smelter chimneys and black slag mounds, its shafts bite 3,425 feet into the earth; from its honeycomb of stopes come 12,000 tons of nut-brown ore every working day. A ton of Frood ore contains 95 pounds of copper, 47 pounds of nickel, and the farther the shafts pierce toward the earth's core the richer the ore becomes...
...afield from the old love-interest, which is a pretty wet gag in Hollywood now, and have substituted a branch of the Navy as the real hero. So they escape some of the soggier romance of Boy and Girl. The scene where the sub-chaser sneaks through the mine-filled fog and destroys an enemy submarine at its base is very well done. An unworthy companion is "The Jones Family" who are down on the farm or in the old homestead or somewhere...
Navy's Plans. Last fortnight Rear Admiral Arthur J. Hepburn and three co-members of a board studying expansion of Naval defense lines recommended immediate establishment or improvement of 15 (out of 41 desired) submarine, destroyer, aircraft and mine bases, in the Pacific, Atlantic and Caribbean. Most dramatic item was a "strong advance fleet base" on the Island of Guam, far westward of the present limit of active operations in the Pacific, only 1,355 miles from Yokohama...
...Mitsui mines were yielding gold, silver, zinc and coal; Mitsui factories were making silks and steel; Mitsui ships were carrying farm, mine and factory products to all parts of the world. Mitsui money helped the Japanese to victory in the wars with China (1894-95) and Russia (1904-05). The House of Mitsui became in fact the most potent Japanese commercial enterprise, and to Takashi Masuda, managing director of the "partnership company" that held the empire together, went much of the credit...