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Word: phelpses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only a month ago tin was selling at 50? per lb. Last week it hit a ten-year high of 66⅓, despite the fact that the International Tin Committee threw the London market into confusion by suddenly upping second-quarter quotas from 100% to 110% of 1929 figures. Copper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Mad Metals | 3/22/1937 | See Source »

Meantime copper shares on the New York Stock Exchange were staging as merry a boomlet as any speculator could ask. Anaconda jumped $9 per share during the week, closing at $64. Kennecott, also at $64, was up more than $3.50 per share. Phelps Dodge at around $58 was up nearly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Copper Into Hoarding | 3/1/1937 | See Source »

Year ago when the Cathedral Chapter met for general assembly, Dean Bratenahl, enfeebled at 73, had lately suffered an attack of coronary thrombosis. The Chapter, a board of trustees including such Episcopalians as onetime Senator George Wharton Pepper, onetime Under Secretary of State William Richards Castle, onetime Ambassador to Great...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Dean Change | 2/22/1937 | See Source »

In Blue Springs, Mo., upon discovering that his wife was in love with Farmer Jim Phelps, Jay Fleener, married 20 years, arranged a divorce, bought Mrs. Fleener and Suitor Phelps a wedding license, paid for the wedding, gave them $500 for their honeymoon, provided Mr. & Mrs. Phelps work and lodging...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Inventions | 12/28/1936 | See Source »

Next morning off tiny Bird Island in the Leeward Archipelago Franklin Roosevelt accomplished the one thing still necessary to make his trip a complete success. At 7:15 a. m. after an early breakfast the Indianapolis and Chester anchored and while the destroyer Phelps sped north with pouches of Presidential...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Ploughing Home | 12/21/1936 | See Source »

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