Word: zinc
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lose It on Zinc. When he was 18 and still on the road, Owen met Bertie Keen, who married him, taught him to read & write and joined his business as a bookkeeper. In 1922, they opened a trading barn in Kansas City's stockyards, slowly developed it into a center for a widespread trading network...
...dickering urge is so strong that his wife is hardly able to get him to buy her a new saddle horse: "He's likely to sell [it] on the way home." Away from horseflesh, Owen is not so shrewd. Recently he lost around $125,000 on a zinc mine. However, he expects to make up much of the loss on his Mexican deal. Already he has shipped 1,000 mules, has another 1,000 ready to go. He figures on filling the rest of his contract long before Congress gets around to doing anything about mules...
Plants occasionally do the analyzing themselves. Many dissolved minerals are poison to some plants and healthy food to others. A certain wild pansy (Viola calaminaria, et zinci) thrives on the waste dumps of zinc mines where little else can survive. The presence of other plants points to copper, lead or petroleum...
...rumor of the week was that a man could get a new Ford car in exchange for a 1943 copper penny. Thousands of citizens bothered Ford dealers to find out if it was true. It wasn't. (And only steel-zinc pennies were minted...
...Under Secretary of State Will Clayton would go to Geneva with congressional permission to cut U.S. tariffs up to 50%. The U.S. could discuss concessions on as many as 3,500 different items, including abaca, Bibles, goat meat, curling stones, unbleached teasels and zinc dust. Despite some worried special interests at home, Clayton had as clear a mandate to "take the expansionist way" as a U.S. Congress was ever likely to give...