Word: coppermen
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...attention has just been called to an article at the bottom of p. 58 in the Nov. 3 issue of TIME in which the statement is made that, "coppermen noted with fear that last fortnight International Paper & Power Co. completed a 126-mile 220,000-volt transmission line made of aluminum wire, first important one of its kind in the U. S." I do not know your source of information for this statement but the statement as it stands is incorrect. Our records show that during the last ten years-the period of time in which 220,000-volt lines...
...level not witnessed since 1895, it was disclosed that once again M. Pisart would visit the U. S. Again it is hoped that his arrival may mean an agreement to curtail African production, the weapon European consumers brandish over U. S. producers. But coppermen had little hope that 9½? would be the nadir. One smelter was. reported already to be shading the new price, and there was talk that the lowest price in recent history, 1894's 9?, may be seen again. No company could make sizable profits at that price, many could make none. And coppermen noted...
Amazed by the violence of the Butte Miner's invective, and also amazed by the assumption of the Times that the contest was "closed," U. S. coppermen reviewed 50 years of fierce warfare over the mines at Butte, Montana, greatest of the world's copper camps...