Word: brunswickers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...uranium finds in the Beaverlodge Lake area of northern Saskatchewan, and the reported base-metal discovery near Bathurst, N.B. The uranium, located on property of Gunnar Gold Mines Ltd., sent Gunnar Gold shooting from a 1952 low of 23? a share to more than $4. But the New Brunswick issues and the chance they offered speculators to strike it rich caused an even greater flurry of excitement. Typical of the rampaging success of these issues was Porcupine Peninsular, a little-known company with holdings in northern Ontario. When the exchange's Trans-Lux screen flashed word that Porcupine...
Died. Dr. Edgar Rudolph Randolph Parker, 80, U.S. chain-store dentist, whose ballyhooing techniques and easy professional ethics boomed his practice but outraged his colleagues; in San Francisco. Booted out of a New Brunswick divinity school for "bad misdemeanors and barefaced falsehoods" more than 60 years ago, he took up dentistry, practiced in Brooklyn, held street-corner lectures on oral hygiene and pulled teeth on the spot. In 1915 he changed his name, thereafter advertised himself as Painless Parker, Dentist. When death came he was running 27 offices on the West Coast, employing 75 dentists...
Last week, long since a living legend, Willie racked up his tournament cue for good. His "retirement" from competition will be spent in playing exhibitions for the Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co., the billiard and bowling equipment manufacturer that has sponsored Willie for 45 years. Although tournament players can now breathe more easily, Willie will doubtless go on dominating exhibition play. The old rocking chair that will finally get him away from the billiard table has probably not yet been built...
...them has called it "the greyest and grimmest collection of medieval plaster casts in America." The visitor passes caskets and kings, prophets and snarling gargoyles, and even one "wise" and one "foolish" virgin. Off the main foyer is a pleasant patio with a pool, overlooked by the Brunswick lion. This is a copy of the statue erected by Henry the Lion, founder of Munich...
Chairman William Cartwright mopped his brow and thought a moment. What was the now-lost customer's complaint? Something about "Light Brunswick Green"? The chairman sent for a can of the paint in question. There it was, marked with the firm's label, "Light Brunswick Green." He opened it. The paint was bright...