Word: golconda
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with his pennies - whereas $5,000 is his approximate daily income, his jewels have an estimated value of $150,000,000, he reputedly has salted down $250,000,000 in gold bars and his capital totals some $1,400,000,000, not to mention the fabled "Mines of Golconda." In English poesy, these disgorge a never-ending stream of diamonds. They lie immediately west of the city of Hyderabad, India's fourth largest metropolis (pop. 400,000). frowned upon by the beet-domed tombs of the Royal Family (see cut, p. 22) about five miles out in the suburbs...
...stock on its mining list. Last week the San Francisco Mining Exchange celebrated its 68th birthday the day the New York Mining Exchange opened. But seldom now do flurries cause great changes in its present stocks which include Carrie, Goldhill, Pony Meadows, Uncle Sam, White Caps, Lucky Strike, Golconda...