Word: tins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...might pass over Kaw Crow, Grull Wihksne, McLeod Cockshutt, Cotton Belt, Porcupine Crown, Buffalo Ankerite, Canadian Malartic, Ymir Yankee Girl. But 'they could hardly resist the most glittering name of all-Yukon Gold. From an investment manual they would be shockingly undeceived. Yukon Gold does nothing but mine tin in the Federated Malay States...
...years. Reason behind this sudden change in policy was the new Federal Tax on undistributed profits. Though it is listed on the New York Curb Exchange, only a minor part of Yukon Gold is owned by the public. More than 80% of its shares belong to Pacific Tin Corp., a basket which the Brothers Guggenheim wove in 1928 to hold some of their mining properties. At that time, Pacific Tin took over a debt of some $7,000,000 from Yukon Gold and most of the company's subsequent earnings have been used to pay off Pacific...
Yukon Gold was founded in 1907 as part of the Guggenheim's gold mining ventures. In the Federated Malay States, it and two subsidiaries hold properties estimated to contain 72,151,000 Ib. of tin. Because the deposits are alluvial, they can be "dredged." Each cubic yard of dredged earth yields about half a pound of metal. Annual output of the company varies according to quotas set every three months by the International Tin Committee. Bases of the cartel allowances, which apply to about 90% of the world's production, are 1929 outputs. In 1935, working...
Last week Michael Francis Tighe, 78, resigned after 17 years as president of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel & Tin Workers. Relegated to a back seat when John L. Lewis' Committee for Industrial Organization took over his decrepit little craft union and set out to make it a great industrial union of all the nation's steelworkers (TIME, June 15 et seq.), reactionary old Mike Tighe offered ill health as reason for his resignation, actually got out before the union's new blood voted...
...later, with both sides standing pat, the 30-day deadline came & went. Out of A. F. of L. marched 1,100,000 members of United Mine Workers; Amalgamated Clothing Workers; Ladies' Garment Workers; United Textile Workers; Oil Field, Gas Well & Refinery Workers; Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers; Iron, Steel & Tin Workers; United Automobile Workers; United Rubber Workers; Flat Glass Workers...