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...raised by a bond issue underwritten by J. P. Morgan & Co. Last week as a preliminary to the payment of dividends, the last of that bond issue was paid off 100? on the dollar. No sooner had ore shipments started in 1930 than the prices of copper and zinc, Hudson Bay's principal products, began to crash to historic lows. In 1932 Hudson Bay Mining stock could have been bought for 75? per share. Last week it was selling at $15 per share. Profits before depletion in 1934 were $1,500,000. Including a small amount of ore handled...
...Schwartz and Peck found the manufacturers of adhesive tape as secretive about the ingredients and methods of manufacture as they are about the yearly yardage and dollar value of their plaster. Eventually the following list of ingredients became clear: rubber, rosin. "Burgundy" pitch, olibanum, beeswax, zinc oxide, anhydrous lanolin, starch, orris root...
Today Union Bag turns out more than 6,000,000,000 bags per year, varying from Cellophane pill envelopes to containers for 100-lb. lots of zinc oxide. Its biggest competitor is Continental Paper & Bag, International Paper & Power subsidiary...
...sister in a game of hide-&-seek. In a vacant apartment across the hall he had found an abandoned icebox, removed the shelves and climbed in, slamming the door behind him. On the outside, the strong snap-lock fell into place. John was surrounded on six sides by unbroken zinc. Police of five states searched a day for him. Then John Carpenter Sr. found the grimy mark of a boy's hand on the icebox door, his son's suffocated body...
Mary Hoover studied painting with lusty George Luks and Provincetown's Charles W. Hawthorne. She won several scholarships, continued her work at Fontainebleau and at Munich, suddenly developed a great interest in modern young Spanish painters. The murals and zinc plate etchings of Luis Quintanilla in particular fascinated her. She pulled wires to see if she might study under him or be his assistant...