Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last November's elections were a big shot in the arm for Coar's project. When the dust had settled, it was speedily noted that not one of the Republicans defeated at the polls had used Coar's service. Now the new Democrats and the surviving Republicans are keeping the microphones so busy that the studio wiped out its $10,000 deficit in June and grossed about $13,000 last month...
Nuggets & Dust. Finally Black Bart slipped up. Hurrying away from a stage robbery near Sonora in 1883, he dropped a handkerchief bearing the mark of a San Francisco laundry. That was all his pursuers needed to track him down. He turned out to be a 55-year-old man who lived in quiet "retirement" and often ate his lunch at a Kearney Street bakery. His name: Charley Bolton...
...Black Bart. It concerns itself chiefly with lavishing praise on Wells Fargo executives and listing company assets and dividends through the years. Most readers had better look elsewhere for the sound & fury of early California days ; but ardent collectors of Americana will want to sift its dry-as-dust style for new facts about the old West...
...Rattlesnake Dick" Barter was. His gang held up a Wells Fargo mule train near Shasta in 1855 and carried off $80,000 worth of gold dust...
...Senate ratified the North Atlantic Treaty. With the vote the formal frontier of U.S. defense leaped across 4,000 miles. It now ran from the windswept tundras of Norway, across the low-lying plains of The Netherlands and Belgium, down the scarred Rhine valley to a dust-hot road barrier outside troubled Trieste...