Word: conning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Occupational Hazard. In Manhattan. ex-Con John Boulter, picked up for carrying a gun, explained that the crime wave had him worried...
...nipped it. Gold-mining, a nonessential industry, was stopped. But last week ex-servicemen were heading north in droves. The Negus mine was already back in production. The Con mine (Consolidated Mining & Smelting) and the Giant Yellowknife mine (expected to be the area's biggest producer) would be producing soon, as would a half-dozen others. Besides, some 250 other companies, most of them new and almost all of them with the alluring word "Yellowknife"* in their names, were busy prospecting, drilling, promoting and hoping. They had plenty of reason for hope. With all its curtailments and setbacks, Yellowknife...
Bill Johnson, 64, from Snohomish, Wash., a veteran of the Yukon who says that prospecting in Yellowknife "is easier than anywhere else," was chief cook at the Con mine until 1938. Since then he has staked 34 claims, now has several hundred thousand shares of gold stock worth anywhere from 17? to 50?-a share...
...CON : (Preening a ruffled wing...
...CON: (Extracting a new quill from Pro's wing...