Word: bonanza
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Because the bones in Dr. Colbert's quarry are softer than the Chinle (sandy clay) formation that surrounds them, they must be taken up with great care. No attempt is being made to recover individual bones at Ghost Ranch: the entire bonanza is being hewn out in big blocks of rock (one to eight tons each), and shipped to Manhattan. There, in the next few months, experts will remove the matrix of rock around the fossils, and carefully polish and reassemble the skeletons...
Adele, a journalism major, slipped in a little practical experience with the Nevada State-Journal and the United Press; nights, she worked as a roulette dealer at Harold's, and later at the Palace, the Bonanza and the Nevada Clubs. She liked the Nevada best: "They took a great deal of pride in my going to college." In the clubs, Adele always wore her wedding ring ("Some people think they should get the dealer if they lose their money"). She made $15 to $25 a night...
...prospector carries it over the hills, poking into crevices. In his earphones he hears a few clicks stirred up by cosmic rays and normal earth radioactivity. If the clicks come faster, his heart generally beats faster too. If they swell to a roar, he may be near a uranium bonanza...
...used-car market, a "get-rich-quick" bonanza for the past four years, was in trouble last week. Across the U.S., used-car prices were tumbling...
Wages v. Profits. But facts, like the Bible, can be used to justify almost anything. Industry economists immediately claimed that the Nathan report was full of gimmicks. One of them: he used as a standard for wages a peak period (January 1945) when labor was mining a war bonanza. On the other hand, he took as a standard for corporation profits the comparatively depressed period...