Word: ginter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tuxedos & Stocks. The $800 million that Bennett is pouring into the Peace project have already quickened a northern rush in anticipation of the power. British Columbia can muster some epic boomtown types. In Prince George, for instance, there is Contractor Ben Ginter, who arrived in 1949 with a stake of $1,500. He has run it to $20 million since, building highways and pulp mills, and a $250,000 hilltop house for himself that includes an indoor waterfall and swimming pool fed by a diverted mountain creek. While clearing the sites for the new pulp mills of Prince George, Ginter...
...Ginter is fairly typical. In a 250-mile radius of Prince George, miners are digging for mercury and steel-hardening molybdenum, copper and zinc. At least 125 mining-company whirlybirds are chopping the mountain air in the hunt for minerals. In the past three months alone, 130 mining companies have been formed, mostly to mine the craze for penny dreadfuls on the frantic Vancouver Stock Exchange, where, since trading opens at 6 a.m. to be on schedule with Toronto and New York, it is not uncommon to see tuxedoed partygoers stagger in for a fling of late action...