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...issue of Dec. 12, 1932, we published a news item to the effect that Thomas Taylor, 67, of Prescott, Ariz., retired superintendent of the United Verde Copper Co., before committing suicide, wrote a will leaving $150,000 to his wife and son, and $10,000 to his daughter, Lillian Taylor Briggs "to go to hell...
...silver in the U. S. and then proceeding to buy 50,000,000 ounces of silver each month (20% to 30% of total world production per year), the Treasury would put up silver prices to great heights, give large profits to silver speculators and to the big copper and lead companies who mine most of U. S. silver, and greatly please the seven states* which mine 95% of the U. S. silver output. Meanwhile the U. S. Treasury would have to pay for large quantities of silver to be buried in its vaults and several hundred million dollars of currency...
...Station is perhaps the strangest of stockholders' stamping grounds but some other corporations also select out-of-the-way places for their annual meetings. Mathieson Alkali meets at Saltville. Va. (pop.: 2,964), F. W. Woolworth Co. at Watertown, N. Y., near Utica where it was founded, Anaconda Copper at Anaconda, Mont. U. S. Steel meets at Hoboken, N. J., where it serves a light lunch. Not all big U. S. corporations seek inaccessible spots. Of the 29 with the largest number of U. S. stockholders, eight meet in New York, five in Wilmington, two each in Baltimore, Philadelphia...
Through work on a book on Engineering Materials, with chapters on Testing machines; iron--gray, malleable, wrought, alloy; carbon and alloy steels; heat treating; non-ferrous metals and alloys; copper, tin, nickel, lead, zinc, aluminum, etc., I have come in contact with many products and processes. In spite of the depression, there is marked activity in research work, and as there is activity in this field, then this is the one to train students to enter, instead of in the already overcrowded ones...
Labor named as its representative on the automobile board Richard L. Byrd. In 1912 Mr. Byrd was known as the man who placed second in the discus throw in the Olympic games at Stockholm. Later he worked in the copper mines in Nevada, and after that for Fisher Body Co. Today he heads the A. F. of L. union in General Motors plants...