Word: copperizing
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...lost works included drawings, etchings, zinc and copper plates by Pennell; all the oil paintings he ever made; all the prints of his famous Panama Canal series and the original drawings for various Henry James, Irving and Howells books; rare editions and presentation copies of Stevenson, Kipling and others; drawings by Aubrey Beardsley and various pre-Raphaelites; Mrs. Pennell's unique collection of books on cookery. Fortunately the Pennells' fine collection of Whistleriana had previously been shipped to America. It is now in the Library of Congress, to which they had also presented much of the destroyed collection...
...Lecture courses by prominent chemists were given on Plant Equipment in the Chemical Engineering Industries, Materials of Construction, Chemistry in Commerce. Classes of students from nearby universities were personally conducted by their professors. The General Electric Co. showed an automatic welding apparatus and an electric steam generator. The Anaconda Copper Co. demonstrated methods of roasting sulphurous copper ore to secure by-product sulphuric acid, with which superphosphate fertilizers are made. Eimer & Amend, instrument manufacturers, displayed a photomicrographic camera, to be attached to an ordinary microscope. The Research Corporation, organized to market new inventions, exhibited an electric precipitator for dried milk...
...long-expected recovery of the copper industry has apparently put in an appearance and critics of the Anaconda Copper Co. in its acquisition of the American Brass Co. and the Chile Copper Co. some months ago are now praising the step as far- sighted...
...great improvement in the industry is due not only to the improved world-demand for copper, but also to the exhaustion of war scrap, which took place gradually during the less prosperous years of 1921 and 1922. Stocks of refined copper decreased about 5,000,000 pounds in September and on Oct. 1 were about 200,000,000 pounds...
...ceased its purchases at the artificial price of one dollar an ounce. The depression in the silver industry is world-wide however. Since the War production has never come within 10% of its pre-war quantity. Senator Oddie points out that since silver is largely a by-product of copper, lead and other mines, the depression of silver prices is likely to increase the prices of most non-ferrous metals...