Word: crude
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...south from the southerly side of Goodnews Bay, on lower Kuskokwim Bay, and gave this nugget to Chas. Thorsen, a gold minor of that section. Thorsen sent some to the Alaska School of Mines, Fairbanks for analyzing and was informed that the sample was a very good grade of crude platinum. Of course this information leaked out another stampede was under way. During the next year a number of other "strikes" were made and for the next six years almost 2,000 oz. of placer platinum were mined each year...
...Goodnews Mining Co. should do as well this year as last and with what's recovered by the Clara Creek Co., the total crude platminum recovery for the Goodnews section alone should be close...
With the exception of some good fight scenes, the whole thing is rather soggy, filled with trite lines and crude humor. Miss Davies does prove, however, that her day, if she over had one, is definitely over. Working under a tremendous handicap, Clark Gable does the best...
...uphold Spanish Democracy or Spanish Bolshevism-these being matters of the point of view-what was Mr. Baldwin to say afterward to British devotees of Democracy, and what was Comrade Stalin to say to Russian enthusiasts for Bolshevism? In this doubly paradoxical dilemma a suave British finesse and a crude Russian demarche had been prepared, ready to be sprung when there met in the British Foreign Office last week the 27 members of the International Committee on Non-intervention in Spain (TIME...
Developed by Autogiro Co. of America, the new giro is the product of many extraordinary recent improvements on the bastard airplane with rotors whose crude ancestor Inventor Juan de la Cierva first made hover in the air 13 years ago. The modern giro is completely wingless, is merely a fuselage with a propeller, a tail, a direct-control rotor. The pilot sets the giro's course by tilting the rotor. In the "readable" model the engine for the first time is behind and below the pilot. This gives him perfect vision on the highway, better balance...