Word: flin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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REVOLT IN SAN MARCOS (433 pp.)-Robert Carver North-Houghton M/'f-flin...
Died. Tom Creighton, 75, co-discoverer of the fabulously rich Canadian Flin Flon mine; after long illness; in Flin Flon, Man. Creighton (and five others) stumbled on the Manitoba lode in 1915, named it after a fictional explorer in a British pulp-magazine thriller. The partners sold out (Creighton got $100,000) and the new owners began digging in 1925, spent $27 million before Flin Flon started paying off ($250 million worth) in gold, copper, silver and zinc...
...almost everywhere. For the more discriminating, there is the smelly but mild-tasting Oka made by Trappist monks near Montreal. Alberta offers the value-seeker a platter-filling Gold Medal Ranch steak for $1. And for those who go to Canada for unusual foods and not the scenery, a Flin Flon café can rustle up a gamy beavertail soup, and a Val d'Or café can do wonders with bear paws...