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...locate what became known as the Lost Gunsight Mine, and never got out of Death Valley either. Only survivors were the families in four wagons trailing behind the Jayhawkers. When, the wagons could go no further, two young scouts pushed ahead, traveled 25 days across the desert, shooting a crow, a hawk and a quail for food, returning with horses from California to rescue the two families surviving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Gold & Death | 12/14/1936 | See Source »

...possible extension of such detection to all human diseases set Professor Burr's imagination afire, impelled him to crow last week: "The technique should be a new and powerful weapon for the analysis of fundamental biological activity. . . . It seems well nigh unlimited in its application...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Electric Disease Detector | 11/23/1936 | See Source »

...last word in abnegation and crow-eating came from William Randolph Hearst who, in answer to his striking employes of Seattle's Newspaper Guild, wired: "I thought [when I was a great admirer of Mr. Roosevelt] that Mr. Roosevelt resembled Jackson. Perhaps I was more nearly right then than later. Perhaps Roosevelt, like Jackson, has given essential democracy a new lease of life and will establish it in power for a generation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Triumph | 11/16/1936 | See Source »

...stuff" improved, became fiercely partisan for his old chief Franklin Roosevelt, rang with colorful invective. Last week a rare journalistic accolade was bestowed on Columnist Hugh Johnson when his running mate, freckle-faced Westbrook Fegler. who has been at columning some eleven years, leaned out of his crow's nest across the World-Telegram's ''folio page" to give the newcomer a friendly hail, pay him a well-deserved compliment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Columnist to Columnist | 9/28/1936 | See Source »

Uninformed investors looking for gold stocks might pass over Kaw Crow, Grull Wihksne, McLeod Cockshutt, Cotton Belt, Porcupine Crown, Buffalo Ankerite, Canadian Malartic, Ymir Yankee Girl. But 'they could hardly resist the most glittering name of all-Yukon Gold. From an investment manual they would be shockingly undeceived. Yukon Gold does nothing but mine tin in the Federated Malay States...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Gold's Tin | 9/28/1936 | See Source »

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