Word: benguet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...equipment to rebuild the mining villages and mill plants wrecked by the Japanese. A trickle of gold was already coming from his mines. But bustling Mr. Haussermann thought it would come out faster if he was on the spot. Twice before, he had picked up the pieces of his Benguet Consolidated Mining Co., and fitted them together, until in 1941 they made a $100,000,000 empire...
...Wind. It was a disaster that had made Haussermann a miner. In 1911 a typhoon swept northern Luzon, flooded the tiny Benguet Co.'s only mill, bankrupted the owners, and left the Bank of the Philippine Islands with a worthless batch of loans. To retrieve its stake, the bank picked Haussermann, Benguet's lawyer, who had come to the islands in 1898 as a second lieutenant, had stayed to become an assistant attorney general in the new Philippine's government...