Word: gold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Edward Reilly Stettinius Sr. made his fortune as a purchasing agent for the House of Morgan during World War I. Ed Stettinius Jr., born in 1900 on Chicago's Gold Coast, grew up to make a reputation, if not a fortune, as an effective seller of other men's ideas...
...airborne missionary brought the feverish tale to Fairbanks: a trapper named Clifton Carrol had found gold nuggets "as big as peas" sticking to a fish wheel he was running in the Yukon River, 20 miles below Fort Yukon. The news licked through the town's old log cabins like fire, blazed in its neon-trimmed bars, spread to the big Army hangars at Ladd Field. It was carried across the Territory by radio. The Fishwheel Stampede...
Despite all the no smoking signs around the College, over a $1,000,000 of the endowment is in voting stock of tobacco companies like Philip Morris, P. Lorillard (Old Gold), and American Tobacco (Lucky Strike...
...Leverett line which, by outblocking and out-maneuvering the vaunted Gold Coast front, engineered the upset. The peak of the Bunny defensive play came late in the third quarter when the line froze an Adams threat on the Leverett four yard line...
...Hasty Pudding Show will start rounding up talent this afternoon for its annual, "Heart of Gold," the first production to go on the road since 1947. Casting, which is open to all undergraduates, begins at 2 p.m. in the club house at 12 Holyoke Street. Troopers of all kinds are needed...