Word: gold
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...indeed, it would seem at first glance, a subject pregnant with merriment. But the Vagabond, true to his nature, attacked the material--and found it with few exceptions pure gold, a few nuggets of which he will give his readers. For example, the description of some of the advertisements: "The said magazine contained a certain advertisement under the following caption: Gland Glad, Papa's Silent Partner. The aforesaid advertisements represented that the use of its product 'Brings quick animation, ready response, lingering satisfaction. If your vitality is low gladden your glands... Be a he-man'; when in truth...
...significant position in Harvard affairs as an important connecting link between the University and the business world, the CRIMSON offers many advantages to its prospective business editors. Contrary to the supposition that the competition is drudgery, there are many interesting experiences, ranging all the way from taking Old Gold tests to searching for phonograph-listening marathons. Then there is contact with the advertising sides of business, which are recognized as essential factors in modern industry...
...busy day and night, but now the industrial empire of which he is chancellor is approaching romantic vastitude. Grausteinia is becoming Graustark.* In the imperial coffers lies a treasure to which the felicitous French have given a suitable name. Besides paper, Graustein of Graustark now deals chiefly in White Gold - water power...
...White Gold Rush. Folded into mountains and valleys, cut by many a swift river, densely populated, primarily a manufacturing area needing railroads to carry workers and their products, their necessities, New England is a hydro-electric El Dorado. Its latent wealth of White Gold was discovered comparatively late owing to a} pre-emption of the handier power sites by textile and other factories; b} New England conservatism - small men content to make and sell power in a small...
...early and deep. But his operations eventually awakened such utility companies as the Boston Edison to look around and consolidate, to form the New England Power Association and other companies, to employ such brains as Graustein of Graustark to fight Invader Insull and mine New England's White Gold themselves. Hydroelectric Minute Men, they set out to meet Mr. Insull with his own weapons. He had newspapers. They acquired the Herald and Traveler...