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...others was an interest in Anaconda Copper, the sale of which in 1896 gave Publisher Hearst $7,500,000 to finance his loud entrance into Manhattan journalism...
...years since 1929. Under the personal management of Robert Earll McConnell, a highly successful mining and patent promoter who gets a cut from the trust's profits, Mayflower goes in for special situations even more heavily than Atlas. It made a tremendous profit on Rhodesian copper stocks early in Depression, has always kept a large part of its resources in cash or Government bonds to catch a bargain when it flits by. Though total assets are more than $13,700,000 Mayflower stock is inactive...
Last week Sears, Roebuck & Co. bought a seat on the New York Commodity Exchange. The No. 1 U. S. mail order house had no intention of speculating in rubber, silk, copper, hides, tin, lead, zinc, gasoline or crude oil. Indeed, the prime reason for buying the seat was to make it easier not to speculate in such commodities. According to Sears's Robert E. Wood, the seat was acquired to facilitate hedging operations...
...they learned by news tickers that Chief Justice Hughes had started reading the opinion, dumped them even faster when they realized its meaning (see p. 16). In the ensuing confusion, trading halted temporarily in a number of issues, and the session ran to nearly 5,000,000 shares. ¶Copper stocks climbed to new highs for the Roosevelt bull market when copper was upped ¼?per Ib. to 9½? by Phelps Dodge Corp. Anaconda Copper followed suit but Kennecott, presumably skeptical of the possibilities of maintaining a higher price with present demands, continued selling at the old level...
Since the Curie-Joliots of Paris discovered artificial radioactivity two years ago (TIME, Feb. 12, 1934), some 40 substances, including salt and copper, have been made radioactive by bombardment with atomic particles. But, unlike radium, these substances are not radioactive in nature. Last week another milestone in the galloping progress of atomic transmutation was marked by the disclosure of a few atoms of Radium E created in the laboratories of the University of California...