Word: rios
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reduced Anaconda's income by $2,000,000; that practically all copper stocks touched new lows on the Exchange; that independent speculators were said to be offering 2,500,000 lb. at 13½?; that Anaconda reduced its miners' pay 25? a day; that complete accounts of Rio Tinto Co.'s annual meeting in London last fortnight contained the speech of its chairman, Sir Aukland Geddes, in which he told with dramatic pleasure of how he and friends had defeated a scheme whereby U. S. interests (probably American Smelting & Refining Co., Guggenheim Co.) tried to gain control...
Wisconsin had fired the first shot against Texas when the Wisconsin Real Estate Board put a quietus on some Texans who were hawking Rio Grande valley land through the Wisconsin back country. The Wisconsin Board claimed that the Texas land was no good, that it had been misrepresented by its boosters. When the Board found that its own secretary, John L. Newman, had defied its edict by purchasing a ten-acre citrus farm in the forbidden valley, it promptly discharged...
...Wisconsin Manufacturer's Association, hastened to Austin, conferred animatedly with Texas' Governor Dan Moody. Mr. Kull pleaded for peace. Governor Moody, bighearted, invited Wisconsin's Governor Walter Jodok Kohler (plumbing fixtures) to come to Texas as his guest, to inspect with him the disputed Rio Grande valley land. If Governor Kohler could not come, Governor Moody asked him to send "a committee of businessmen whose word will bear weight...
...Rio de Janeiro, the Graf Zeppelin will make her first South American landfall, but probably will not stop. She will proceed to Pernambuco, Brazil, where a mooring mast is being erected. To refuel the Graf, no facilities exist at present in South America...
...consolidation plan, MOP will unite with Denver & Rio Grande and Western Pacific. This will afford a complete road from St. Louis to the West Coast. In the East, the Van Sweringens could easily make any of several connections through the various roads they control...