Word: carats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Arkansas field was opened in 1906 by a guide named John Huddleston, who found a 2½-carat diamond washed out by rain from a volcanic crater which he had bought (giving a mule as down payment) for farming. Huddleston sold his land to Arkansas Diamond Corp. for $36,000, spent the money in a hurry, is now an old-age pensioner. At that he did better than his successors. Investors in Arkansas Diamond Corp.* and a small competitor that shares the field have sunk several hundred thousand dollars in equipment and operations. Out of the mines thus far have...
When you pick up a book from Widener, therefore, the chances are fairly good that you will find on its back the Bindery's trademark, an emblem with the words "Harvard University Library" printed in g ld. The gold is practically ten carat quality, but is so thin that it is worth almost nothing. Although the Bindery at the present time has $400 worth of gold leaf in its possession, would-be purloiners will have a hard time getting...
Moss Hart's play idea is 18-carat. A hard-working editress of a fashion magazine, unhappy despite her enviable job and a devoted married lover, goes to get herself psyched. With that the play dissolves into a psychoanalytical circus with four revolving rings. The scene shifts from the psychoanalyst's office to the Allure office, to the young lady's dreams, and back again. Playwright Hart puts anything on the stage that he wishes?a love affair, sophisticated neuro-drama. fashion parades, farce, musical dream fantasias. And the lovely editress learns that she really wants to be less editorial...
...opened his store in downtown Manhattan, sold $4.98 worth of goods in the first three days. A dozen years later, the firm (then Tiffany, Young & Ellis) startled rival jewelers by purchasing $100,000 worth of royal Hungarian diamonds, began gathering éclat. Still later it bought the 128½-carat canary Tiffany diamond. Big as a man's fist, priceless, the stone is exhibited on state occasions, like the New York World's Fair...
...running the family on a "sound business basis." Here in truth is a one-man band playing with all the noise and car-splitting trumpet section of a high school brass combo. But there is gold beneath the brass, and father's few off-guard moments display its fine carat...