Word: gold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first organized just a few months ago, realizing the skimpmess of information in the official course catalogue, have gathered together content summaries, reading lists, and last year's final exams for all 32 spring term Social Relations courses into a little blue pamphlet worth its weight in the proverbial gold...
...branch plants of U.S. companies (there are 2,000 of them in Canada) to stop importing parts, begin making their own with Canadian raw materials. He will be able to shut any plant that does not cooperate. He will have the power to step up exploitation of Canadian resources. Gold mines, for example, will get a $7-an-ounce subsidy for every ounce they produce over their output in the twelve months ending last June 30. Coal production will be stimulated. Under Minister Howe, Canada hopes to build more paper mills, make high-grade paper stocks at home instead...
...lyrical over what he sees. "Water," says Pieter, "seems to give off vibrations which appear like beams of moonlight striking through a window pane. A gold reef appears like a black ridge. Diamonds give off individual vibrations. I cannot explain them." A Johannesburg mining syndicate was well content to let the explanations go, provided Pieter's sharp eyes continued to seek out treasures. They put the boy under contract as a dowser...
...York, Times's Veteran Drew Middleton's was perhaps the best from the streets outside, where scores of newsmen covered the processional route. Buffeted by the surging crowds along the Mall, Middleton was lifted up by their surging spirit, as "a river of scarlet and gold and steel flowed through the shabby, cheerful masses of Britain. . . . For a brief moment the pace of the strident, terrible 20th Century was slowed to the trot of cavalry horses...
Gannon won a jewel-encrusted medal as one of the "outstanding players of the East." A special gold football with chain attachment went to Moravec for what Pepsi Cola president W. S. Mack Jr. termed "being such a good...