Word: free
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days after the Erfdeel test, the South African Press Association flashed still more exciting news. A test bore on another farm near Erfdeel had reportedly assayed out even richer. At this, Jo'burg's frantic speculators ran up the Free State Gold Areas shares to a high of $11.28-and Promoter Milne's paper profits were estimated at somewhere between $8 million and $20 million...
...both the Jo'burg and London exchanges the great gold boom collapsed. Free State shares, which had started dropping on news of the false press report, plummeted to $2.62. It remained to be seen how much gold Milne's claim would finally yield. But Milne did not seem worried. He gave a cocktail party for 500 guests and expressed the hope that he could soon arrange for "quotation of my shares on the American market...
Goal? What was the ultimate goal of Allied decartelization policy? That was still up in the air. Britain wanted to nationalize the deconcentrated plants, while the U.S. wanted them to form a new basis for free competitive enterprise to strengthen the German economy. France was more interested in keeping Germany weak...
...public perpetuates the star system, which keeps budgets high and originality at a low ebb; it sometimes passes up good pictures, e.g., The Search, and flocks to trash starring big names; it needles Hollywood for kowtowing to pressure groups, but never organizes to help keep the screen free...
...Honoria Dabney and their descendants ; how they settled in Mississippi, fought Indians, traded in slaves, cleared land, built roads, made fortunes, formed the Free State of Lebanon (in opposition to the Confederacy) during the Civil...