Word: gold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the U.S. went south in 1904 to dig the big ditch it took Jim Crowism into the tropics. Skilled U.S. foremen were paid in gold currency; locally recruited labor, mainly Jamaican Negroes, were paid in silver. Those on the gold roll shopped at "gold" commissaries; those on the silver roll went to others marked "silver." Drinking fountains labeled gold and silver stood side by side. At the post-office were two separate wickets. The system went farther: the few Negroes on the gold roll would never have dreamed of sending their children to the superior gold schools, though theoretically...
...situation, Local 713's membership snowballed. Army officials, alarmed by U.P.W.A.'s growth and embarrassed by the old Jim Crow system, were ready to meet the union's demands, at least half way. By last week the union claimed these gains: 1) removal of the hateful gold and silver signs in public places; 2) an order admitting Panamanians to equal terms in civil service exams; 3) hourly wage hikes of 2? to 6?; 4) a 40-hour week; 5) improved vacation privileges; 6) more overtime...
...into the jade was the figure of a priest, or ruler, presiding over a circle of deities (see cut). To make it, the Mayan artist had labored with wooden bow drills, and smoothed his work down with abrasive sand. Carnegie Institution diggers found the breastplate and an assortment of gold-leaf ornaments, copper bells "and one alabaster vase amid the rotted bones in an ever-deepening series of graves...
...Much Sodium. The A.M.A.'s gold medal for the most original exhibit went to a pair of young Tulane doctors who had broken out a new track of investigation. Drs. George E. Burch (see below) and Paul Reasor wanted to find out why people with congestive heart failure have so much trouble getting rid of water, and thus show such symptoms as massively swollen legs. They suspected that sodium, an extremely "thirsty" element, had something to do with it. So they fed patients salt containing radioactive sodium, and followed the sodium's course. Sure enough, they discovered that...
...Grows rich when gold is discovered there...