Word: assaying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...likely, though, to get a bang from the scene, as you will from the whole flicker if you assay it not only as a vehicle produced to make a good point, but also to make a lot of money...
Cobalt Comeback. One of the first towns to revive was Ontario's Cobalt. Its fabulous story began in 1903 when Fred La Rose, a railway worker, picked up a piece of ore in an isolated rail cut. He thought it was copper; on assay it showed a phenomenal 13,000 oz. of silver to the ton. Prospectors poured in, and made one jewelry-store strike after another. In four years, 44 mines were opened. By 1916 Cobalt mines had produced 300,000,000 oz. of silver. By 1922 the richest veins had petered out and the price...
...produce no influx of motley adventurers, only a brief land boom for Free State farmers. Established companies hold mineral rights or options on almost all of the fertile grainlands, and there are few surface outcrops. If, as some Canadian and London experts warned that it might, the single borehole assay proved a fluke, thousands of speculators and small investors might see millions in paper profits disappear as fast as a summer shower on the parched Orange Free State fields...
...early to assay the quality of U.S. military leadership in World War II, as history will assay it. But the U.S. is winning this war, as it has won all others in its history, and 640 out of 1,497 of the Army's present general officers are West Pointers.* First Captain (now 2nd Lieut.) Robert Woods will take his place in battle with the Long Grey Lines as soon as he has finished a course in the Infantry School at Fort Benning. Whether he will follow in the brilliant footsteps of such First Captains as Robert...
Some of the penny stocks, like Quemont-whose mine in western Quebec has yielded high-assay ore-have genuine mines behind them. But the only claim of some is that they are located next door to something good, and many of the promoted properties do not even exist...