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Near Deadwood, S. Dak. the Black Hills Exploration Co. prepared to prospect for gold with the world's largest diamond drill. The company's president: Sid Grauman, owner of Hollywood's famed Chinese Theatre. Vice president: Cinemactor Al Jolson...
...city of Lead, S. Dak., where Homestake's 2,000 miners and their families live, last week's report was of less interest than the $100 bonus paid each employe last Christmas and the well-founded expectations of similar bonuses to come. Only four and one-half miles from legendary Deadwood, Lead is a wholly-owned company town with a unique mining-town tradition of health and tranquillity. It has never known a depression. There are no pool halls in Lead, no saloons, no drugstore loafers. Homestake spends $65,000 a year on its hospital, more...
Mitchell, S. Dak...
...PEIK D. D. S. President-Elect North Dakota State Dental Association Carrington, X. Dak...
Thickly frosted in the frigid air of Moonlight Valley, S. Dak., start of the two previous failures, the great rubbery bag grew like a mushroom in the night as 300 soldiers labored beneath floodlights to pump in 300,000 cu. ft. of helium. By dawn all was ready. The balloonists climbed aboard, shouted: "Up, balloon!" Released, it floated gently away, cleared the rim of the woodsy valley, drifted out of sight as the 20,000 chilled spectators trekked back to Rapid City. Six hours later, Capt. Stevens radioed that Explorer II had touched 74,000 ft., well above both...