Word: ores
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...staff of auditors bustled to present a fair view of profits & losses for the March 1934 quarter. Shot with good accounting practice was the report of U. S. Steel. From actual operations Big Steel had cleared $6,578,000. Interest and extraordinary expenses (representing its share of overhead for ore and shipping properties) ate up some $2,700,000. Steel would still have been able to report a profit had it not then deducted a walloping $10,795,000 for depreciation & depletion. This, of course, was not money out of its big pocket, but eventually those plants and mines must...
...bluish-white metal called tin, they found only dull reddish dirt. The Indians, craving alcohol and coca leaves, wanted to quit. One day they cracked out a few grains of tin. Later a full-fledged vein was uncovered. The Bolivian went to catch some Ilamas, loaded them with tin ore, plodded down to La Paz. Soon all Bolivia had heard that Simon Patino, onetime grocer's clerk, was growing rich...
...Sweden, for seven years at 51%. It would shatter once and for all the twelve-year financial blockade by governments against the U. S. S. R. The money must be spent in Sweden, would buy high grade steel for tools, electrical machinery, ball bearings, iron ore...
...peanut lodged in his left lung; in Manhattan. ¶Died. Two Guns White Calf, 62, son of the last Blackfoot chieftain; after a brief illness; in Glacier Park, Mont, (see p. 10). ¶Died. Fielder Allison Jones, 62, baseball player and manager; in his sleep; in Portland, Ore. In 1906, Fielder (his real name) Jones managed Chicago's "hitless wonders" White Sox team (batting average: .229), won a World Series from the Chicago Cubs whose infield included Tinker and Evers and Chance. Famed as an umpire baiter, he taught players such as Nick Altrock. Ed Walsh, Yip Owens...
...Balatoc voted their stockholders a 100% dividend of $4,100,000. During the year they had extracted 219,000 oz. of fine gold worth $6,513,288, 50% more than they received in 1932. Balatoc for its part proudly announced that the average value per ton of its ore had been $16.13, against an average of $6.35 at the Rand mines of South Africa, producers of half the world's gold. Benguet and Balatoc, managed by John W. Haussermann, a U. S. citizen long resi- dent in Manila, comprise about 80% of the Philippine gold industry. Not listed...