Word: bonanzas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Having established Cordon as a villain, Neuberger moved into the second phase, in mid-September, with his own campaign promises. With Maurine driving a rented blue Ford, the Neubergers traveled to every nook and corner of the state, to Philomath, Gold Beach, Madras, Looking glass, Yachats, Yoncalla, Bonanza, Cornucopia, Garibaldi, Grande Ronde, Depot Bay, and even to Sisters and Fossil. Wherever possible they stayed with local citizens, and Dick invariably managed to establish a personal identification with his audiences ("As my close friend Amos Buck of the Butchers' Union knows . . ."). With his sloppy green corduroy jacket and his pleasantly...
Indian Head Bonanza. In 1950 Fred decided to buy a Geiger counter. For months he worked overtime at his job as janitor of the local high school in order to accumulate the necessary $100. The day he brought his counter home, he poked it around his backyard rock pile. Immediately, the Geiger counter began to jitter excitedly, but when Fred located the radioactive rock and dug it out, he could not remember where he had found it. For three months he retraced his steps through the hills until at last, on a Sunday afternoon, he discovered the spot where...
...such fleet specimens of horseflesh as her stakes-collecting four-year-old Aureole, learned that she had topped Britain's racehorse owners in supplementing her monarchial income this past season. Her total winnings: $114,780, picked up in 19 races by ten of her thoroughbreds-a record turf bonanza for a member of Britain's royal family...
...Knapp engineers started taking core samples, they found a 65-ft. formation of blue clay, sand and rock that would have to be excavated at a cost of about $3.000,000. Bill Zeckendorf told his men to keep on sampling. Last week, instead of a banana, they found a bonanza. They had struck gold 40 ft. down. Said Zeckendorf: "We will be able to sluice more than $1,000,000 worth of gold out of that sand. But I wouldn't say that this development means the whole city of Denver should...
...DISCOVERY in Wise County, Texas is turning into a bonanza. Developers, including Millionaire Houston Oilman R. E. ("Bob") Smith (TIME, May 24), have just signed a $100 million gas sale contract with the Natural Gas Pipeline Co., which will build a 280-mile line from the field to Pampa. There it will connect with the company's pipeline carrying gas northward to Midwest markets...