Word: copperizing
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...Buenos Aires, purporting to be an eminent electrical engineer, sold stock in his "Electronic Corporation" at $100 a share. He claimed to have invented, in his laboratory at Buenos Aires, a lamp which, by withdrawing energy from the air and bombarding a substance composed of sea salt, tin, copper, asphalt and paraffin, burned continuously for seven months, needed no recharging, and would have burned on till the substance disintegrated, had the laboratory not been destroyed by lightning. Suit was brought against him in the New York State Supreme Court. Many of his statements were proved false or were at variance...
...statues of bulls, three feet high, made of thin copper plates over a wooden core. Their horns were of gold...
...however, an undoubted revival has set in. January proved the second largest month in the history of the industry, in respect to domestic and foreign copper shipments of North and South America, and totaled 215,000,000 Ibs. Foreign shipments have averaged about 80,000,000 Ibs. during the past four months. Stocks have increased during last month...
...movement did not attract general notice until the price of copper in New York and London began to climb, and until copper shares in Wall Street began to advance even through a generally declining stock market. Meanwhile all is not peaceful in the American copper industry; considerable dispute has risen over a proposed tariff to shut out cheap foreign production. Every copper company is taking sides according to its interests. Leading companies to suffer by such a tariff are: Anaconda, with extensive production in Chile through ownership of the Chile Copper Co.; Kennecott, which owns Breden Copper, also in Chile...
...Copper for 16½?, steel...