Word: galena
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...marvelous business capacity; that Colonel Frederick Grant was fit to command armies; that Jesse was a mathematical genius." The less indulgent New York World insisted that "the Grant sons, but for the accident of their father's presidency, might have been respectable drygoods clerks in Galena...
...World War II equivalent of the homemade crystal set (circa 1920) with its galena rock and cat's whisker, turned up in force on the Anzio Beachhead. One of hundreds of U.S. infantrymen who made foxhole receivers to kill time and boredom at Anzio, Lieut. M. L. Rupert, sent a diagram and description of the set to the Marlin Firearms Co. (razor blades, etc.). Wrote...
...Sporting "girls of the line" who made Galena Street one of the most notorious wide-open districts in the U.S., ranking with San Francisco's Barbary Coast. Wrote one observer: "I've often seen it on the old line with the girls late in the evening walking up the street, their stockings so weighted down with silver dollars that it was all they could do to navigate." Added another: "There were some sprightly-lookin' lasses down there. . . . But there was plenty of tough-lookin' blisters too. A man could have got hydrophobia from even lookin...
...busy about its bustling, wartime present. The mines were going at their fullest blast since the depression, Butte's 300 saloons still worked nightily to quench its thirst, the girls of its ' Venus Alley" still sat in front of their cribs as did those of oldtime Galena Street, its cuisine still ranged from fried bear steak to Cornish pastries, its inhabitants still quarreled in some 30 different languages and dialects. In war as in peace, Butte was still a mining camp, still one of the rowdiest towns in the U.S., still a U.S. legend out of which...