Word: phelpses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The pictures at top and bottom of this page illustrate why the U.S. can't expand copper production fast enough to meet its needs-four years elapsed between them. It took that long for Phelps Dodge to behead a mountain and lay bare the mile-long, 400-ft. thick...
In 1937 the price of copper went to 16?. Phelps Dodge dusted off long-drawn openpit plans, issued $28,000,000 in convertible 3½% debentures, began moving the 46,000,000-ton mountaintop.
Last week ghostly Morenci was booming. Its main street, Burro Alley, had been widened, its houses repaired. The railroad has been converted from narrow to standard gauge; natural gas is tapped in 100 miles from the West Texas pipeline; there are new power and water systems. Besides opening the mine...
When Paul Smith's son Phelps died nearly five years ago, he left the Smith fortune to found Paul Smith's College (TIME, April 5, 1937). The trustees surmounted lawsuits by 22 Smith cousins, refused to quit even when they learned that the Smith fortune, once reckoned at...
Not a novel, The Hills Beyond is mostly short flights of fiction. The opening piece on Grover Gant (who died early in Look Homeward, Angel) is a short, beautifully disciplined work, in a style of which Wolfe is popularly supposed to have been incapable. Chickamauga, which Wolfe slicked up unnaturally...