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Accordingly, there is a quiet optimism present in the copper industry that has long been lacking. Thus far copper shares have not shown any great advance, and they have too often disappointed Wall Street to be readily taken up by the speculating public. Yet from the standpoint of statistics the copper industry's future appears brighter than it has for many years...
...this point, several Rumanians and Germans offered to sell for $3,500 to Superintendent Dunlap a sure scheme to extinguish the fire. Their proposal was looked into, rejected. The next scheme tried was digging a tunnel up to the wall with the idea of dynamiting it. The project was stopped by irate Rumani who demanded huge payments for permission to use their property as a right...
...Just as Wall Street began to hesitate over a possible rise in the New York Reserve rate, however, the bold rate-cut of the Bank of England (see below) lent encouragement. In the face of this reduction, an advance in the Reserve rate is thought quite unlikely...
...subsidiary, and no longer an independent. Decisions were made by the Standard of Indiana heads, and the Presidency of "Pan Pete" became a sinecure job, without responsibilities or possibilities for individual initiative. This development little suited an oil pioneer like Mr. Wylie, who has now announced his resignation. When Wall Street heard the news, "Pan Pete" stock experienced a sharp decline-a sincere tribute to Mr. Wylie's executive ability...
Sued for Divorce. Osborne C. Wood, 27, son of Major General Leonard Wood, onetime U. S. Army lieutenant, winner of a large fortune in Wall Street and loser of that fortune at the gaming tables of Europe, by Mrs. Katherine Thompson Wood; at Wilmington, Del. She is at Southampton, L. I., with her children. He is in Florida attempting to recoup in real estate...