Word: 70s
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dance halls, "wine theaters," brothels. Lucky miners became millionaires overnight, tossed silver dollars at stage girlies in red tights, brawled, gambled, built gingerbread palaces on the hill. Leadville had its ups & downs - gold in the '60s ; silver-rich carbonate ores that made the Carbonate Kings in the '70s; the Little Johnny and other gold-mine workings in the '90s. By 1933, however, most of the zinc, lead and silver mines were shut down-flooded. Big companies spent $3 million fighting the seeping water, finally gave...
When Paul-César Helleu was young, in the '70s, he ran away from a comfortable Paris home, studied at the Beaux Arts, made friends with Sargent. He painted cathedral interiors and scenes of Versailles in autumn, reached his greatest renown as an etcher of pretty women in all seasons. He led a pleasant, quasi-boulevardier life, was happy with his wife in a satiny apartment near the Bois de Boulogne...
...travel the world, and to give transportation the chance to revivify the U.S. as it has done after two other great wars (railroads in the '70s, the automobile after World War I), U.S. aircraft must have the right of passage over the nations of the world, and of landing on their airports. The U.S. must give the same privileges to other nations...
With a few exceptions like Pan American's New Orleans application, CAB will probably pigeonhole all route petitions for the duration. But they still have significance aplenty-they foreshadow a postwar battle for transportation routes unparalleled since U.S. railroaders fought head-to-head in the roaring '70s...
...tunes of the '70s, '80s and '90s were nobler and more beautiful, the quoted lyrics, vivid and picturesque as they are, give few hints of it. Lost Chords leaves the reader wondering whether Author Gilbert, in his comment on Dixie, has not hit on an important near-truth-the clue to the popularity of most pop songs: "The words don't mean anything, but there is a skin-prickling element in the melody...