Word: conrow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cripple Creek, Colo., Herman Conrow Jr., 36, discharged from the Army in November, leased a gold mine. By last week he had struck it rich, taken out $25,000, was going strong, with nothing to lose-since on the "split-check" leasing plan, a miner invests only his time, surrenders half his take. Miner Conrow, too, had learned his trade before the war. Looking at the returned U.S. serviceman last week, his neighbors concluded that he, like other new small businessmen, was ignoring the "everything-for-the-boys" oratory, preferring to set his own course, toward his own goal...