Word: utah
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President set aside 7,100 acres in Emery County, Utah, as "Helium Reserve No. 1," for the purpose of preserving the gas for the nation's lighter than-air craft...
...Brass. Except for its newly acquired Chile Copper Co. properties, Anaconda is a high-cost producer, and with the red metal selling about 15% below even the 1913 price, cannot expect to operate its old deep-shaft mines at much, if any, profit. With such companies as Kennecott, Chile, Utah or Miami, the lower costs of production make present copper prices more profitable...
...order to protect the "War-baby" beet sugar industry of this country, a tariff on imported sugars was placed in the Fordney-McCumber tariff act. The beet sugar growers of Utah and other centres have strongly supported this tariff. And the sugar refineries and the American companies producing cane sugar in Louisiana, Cuba and elsewhere have strongly opposed it. Without the tariff, the American beet sugar industry is doomed, since it cannot compete with the lower costs of producing Cuban sugars. With the tariff, we have a situation analogous to taxing American sugar consumers in order to subsidize the domestic...
April 30, 1915, President Wilson created Reserve No. 3 (Teapot Dome) near Casper, Wyo., containing 9,481 acres. (There are two other Reserves, Nos. 4 and 5, in Utah in the shale oil region...
Eighteen States?Arkansas, Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming?joined Missouri in asserting State control over national as well as State and private banks in matters of such vital importance as the establishment of branches...