Word: scraps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jewish-Irish- Muncie, Ind. is "Middletown," U. S. A. Benjamin Victor Cohen was born there in 1894, son of a scrap iron merchant. He broke all scholastic records at University of Chicago Law School (1915), took a postgraduate year at Harvard Law School and became secretary to U. S. Circuit Court Judge Julian Mack (receiverships). The War and the Jews' plight brought Cohen into contact with Louis Dembitz Brandeis. He is still a director of Palestine Economic Corp., wherein he first tasted planned economy. In the reckless 19205 he was not above playing the stockmarket. A killing Chrysler stock...
...immediate future. Neither did Colonel Leonard Porter Ayres in his monthly sound-off. True, solid gains in crop prices on the report of bad weather and rust jumped Moody's commodity index to 136 last week. But a 25? drop brought the listed price of steel scrap to $10.75 a ton, positive proof that the key industry of steel had no immediate upsurge ahead. And the stock market last week again turned down without even approaching the 121 level on the industrial averages, penetration of which Dow theorists would have considered significant...
Last week Kennecott Copper Corp., whose operations fell to 16% of capacity in 1932 during the depths of Depression I, announced that beginning June 16 all its U. S. mines would be closed "for at least a month." Domestic scrap copper prices having tumbled from 10? to 6.75? a Ib. in eight days, Anaconda Copper Mining Co., one of the world's biggest producers, already had closed two of its biggest U. S. mines...
...under good steam. But in the U. S. pressure remained low. The latest Federal Reserve index of industrial production (for April) stood at 17, down two points from March. Statisticians guessed that by last week it had dropped another point or two. Other metals besides copper reflected this trend: Scrap steel and tin were off slightly for the week, lead was down to 4? a pound from...
...truculence of Henlein, the Times sternly voiced the hopes of ruling-class Britons that he was asking maximums, hoping to get something substantial. Although claiming to lead only 800.000 Nazis,* Henlein blustered demands that the Czechoslovak Government raise its Germans from the status of a "minority" to "equality," scrap its treaties of alliance with France and Russia, reverse its whole foreign policy and line up with Greater Germany...