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...Anaconda Copper Mining Co., enjoying demands for metal which exceeded production during the year: net profits of $15,882,000, compared with...
...here," a Canadian interviewer was told in London by Britain's No. 1 Jewish industrialist Lord Melchett. "Another slump like the last one-and I'm afraid we'd have civil war in Britain!" Melchett told of advising the Government to buy 300,000 tons of copper at Depression's dirt-cheap price of $150 per ton, remarked that the Government is now screaming for copper at $350 per ton, cannot find as much as it wants for rearmament...
...gapers could view Edinburgh by moonlight, the Swiss Alps, St. Peter's in Rome and other romantic views set up and painted by its owner, M. Louis Daguerre. For several years Scenepainter Daguerre had been experimenting with photography, had invented a secret process for taking pictures on sensitized copper plates. Loss of the Diorama was the loss of Daguerre's income. He accepted an annuity of 4,000 francs ($800) from the French Government for the secret of his invention, which was shortly the subject of a booklet soon translated into six languages, published in 26 editions...
...concern which publishes few figures, always makes money, has paid dividends without interruption since the Century's turn and actually has its principal mines in New Jersey. Output of the New Jersey mines at present is probably close to 100,000 tons annually. Zinc is also produced by copper miners, partly for the use of brass-making affiliates. In boom times Anaconda Copper's zinc production has been higher than 150,000 tons. Another big zinc miner is U. S. Steel, which has mines producing around 50,000 tons annually...
Since the rise in copper has long since been discounted in the price of copper shares, the stock market has lately been combed for lead and zinc issues. Market-wise, U. S. Smelting Refining & Mining, which used to be a prime "silver stock," is now a "lead stock" with a high zinc flavor. On boom-time operating schedules it turns out from its own mines about 60,000 tons of lead, 30,000 tons of zinc...