Word: coppering
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...year ago, U. S. copper producers were inclined to think that only this continent, in the future as in the past, could furnish copper in large amounts when the demand for the red metal revived. Some of them have been treated to a rude shock by the sudden recent prominence in the industry of the Katanga mines in mid-Africa...
These deposits, only lately put into heavy production, now have an annual output of 240,000,000 Ib. It has been estimated that they contain about 9,000,000,000 Ib. of extractable copper metal...
...Katanga copper deposits are owned by a Belgian company-l'Union Miniere du Haut Katanga, incorporated in 1906. This company is in turn controlled by a London company-the Tanganyika Concessions, Ltd.-and a Belgian company-la Societé Générale de Belgique...
...with an offer. On the calm waters of the River James, lay 218 ships, the pride of the U. S. wooden navy, built at a cost of $235 million. The Salvage Co. has taken an option on the entire lot. Ten are to be burned. If the iron and copper salvaged from the ashes repay the effort, the whole fleet will be bought...
...Motors Corporation; Professor H. Steenbock, chemical research head of the University of Wisconsin; Professor E. C. C. Baly, famed savant of the University of Liverpool. In the chair was Dr. Leo Hendrik Baekeland, President of the Society, a man who invents. He has discovered processes for the separation of copper and cadmium, for the impregnation of wood, for the making of Velox paper, thus winning heavy honors, including several pounds of medals. But first among his achievements is the invention of a certain substance...