Word: coppering
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...London, a bullock was slaughtered, in its stomach found: seven pounds of nails, several pieces of copper wire, a silver brooch, a shoe buckle, a rubber boot and a derby hat. The bullock was pronounced healthy, its steaks pronounced tender...
...feathers showed equally heartening gains, except for the duck division. So overproduced are duck feathers that last week a Long Island dealer in them asked the State Department if a sale to Germany could not be arranged on terms similar to those proposed for overproduced U. S. wheat, cotton, copper. To feather-men throughout the world this was cause for great rejoicing; to ostrich farmers in South Africa who have not killed their birds it was a vindication, although they still recall the high of $175 a pound reached in the boom days of 1910-1912. The ostrich reaches...
...Export copper, c.i.f. (cost, insurance, freight) to European base ports, was reduced from 8¼ to a new low of 8?. Sales were small. Domestic copper was nominally quoted at 8?, many sales were arranged at 7¾?, small lots could be picked...
...With copper last week being sold by custom smelters at 7⅜? a pound, another all-time low, the already painful pinch upon U. S. producers became sharper than ever. Therefore last week Quincy Mining Co. shut down its mines for five weeks and Magma Copper Co. shut down for three months. Adding United Verde and United Verde Extension, both of which shut down several weeks ago, this made four copper companies out of business. In 1929, the four supplied 12% of total U. S. production. Should copper fail to rise in the near future, other of the lesser companies...
...Cheap copper has no terrors for the great Mid-African mines of the Union Minière du Haut Katanga, world's biggest producer. At the company's annual meeting in Brussels last week. President Jean Jadot stated that his company can make money on 8? or even 7½? copper. Katanga's 1930 earnings were 270,208,000 Belgian francs ($7,511,000), only about 6,000,000 francs down from the peak earnings of 1929. Elements in Katanga's strength are: tremendously rich ores; cheap native labor; big production of cobalt and radium (over...