Word: gold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fancy place that oldtimers dream about. . . . Some said the "valley was full of gold and some said it was hot as hell owing to the warm springs. . . . It had a wicked name too, for at least a dozen folks went in and never came out. . . . Indians said it was the home of devils...
...name stuck. Prospector Martin Jorgensen, who went in after gold in 1910, was also found dead. The bones of another prospector, Yukon Fisher, were discovered near a creek in 1928. Three trappers vanished in the valley. In 1945 Woodsman Walter J. Tully came on the body of an Ontario miner, Ernest Savard, in his sleeping bag, his head all but severed...
...Gold in Streaks. But not all Nahanni legend was nonsense. Even from the air, the valley seems a lonely and lovely place amid the jagged escarpments (see cut). The University of Alberta's exploring Professor Alan E. Cameron, who entered the valley in 1936, explained the mild climate; chinooks (warm winds) keep the air balmy and moist. The lush grass attracts game and hot springs help warm the air. Also gold had been found there...
Pearls & Pirates. Once Cartagena, metropolis of the Spanish Main, was the great port where the gold of Peru, the silver of Bolivia and the pearls of Rio Hacha (in Colombia) had awaited shipment in the annual convoy to Spain. The treasures drew freebooters and pirates-English and French; even today the names of Hawkins and Drake and Morgan are as familiar to Cartageneros as the names of Dion O'Bannion and Al Capone are to Chicagoans...
...auto industry had dreamed of making 6,000,000 cars and trucks; it made only 3,000,000. Of the 1,200,000 houses blueprinted under Wilson Wyatt's program, the U.S. finished only about 700,000. And even the overall glitter of profits proved fool's gold in many an industry. Example: Westinghouse made more peacetime goods than ever-and had an operating loss of $50,000,000, twice as much as during the three worst years of the depression...