Word: gold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...interested in silk screen printing, court tennis, Canadian gold mining camps and gold mine stock promotion, cryptography, soil conservation, sump pumps...
...when Evalyn Walsh was ten, her tough, Tipperary-born father struck gold at Ouray, Colo. Tom Walsh had lived in a boxcar, tended store in Deadwood, and hammered outcroppings for fruitless decades. But when the millions rolled in he twirled the ends of his handlebar mustache, hustled his family off to Washington and swore that his daughter was going to be a lady. Evalyn promptly swore that she wouldn't. She didn't. But in the next 50 years she proved that with $100 million, a wild Irish miner's daughter could do almost everything else under...
...whose best-known precepts is: "One inch of time is equal to one inch of gold...
...fourth inning rallies by Leverett and Dunster spiked all victory hopes for Adams and Lowell Houses in intramural ball game yesterday, as the Bunnies piled up five runs to down the Bellboys, 7 to 3, in baseball, and the Deacons capitalized on seven Adams errors to whip the Gold Coast softball team...
Bush Taxi. Ontario-born John McNiven now lives in Yellowknife, on the desolate northern shore of Great Slave Lake, center of the new gold rush (TIME, May 13). As the only municipality in the sprawling empire, Yellowknife presented the council last week with unaccustomed problems. For instance: though 420 miles from the nearest railhead and 450 from a highway, Yellowknife has a flourishing taxicab business, carrying passengers between town, airport and mines. The local administration wanted the right to regulate the cab business. The council said yes. It also gave the boomtown authorities power to deliver water (there...