Word: gold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...young New England lawyer, he had gone to Colorado when gold was pouring out of the fabulous Cripple Creek district. He got his share of the West's wealth, first as a lawyer, then as a financier of railroads, then as a banker, finally as an oilman. It was a heady day, when Denver was awash with new millionaires and old champagne bottles, and Henry Blackmer was the biggest spender and entertainer of all. He earned a reputation for blowing half a million dollars a year for 13 years...
From Manchuria eastward through Sinkiang, along some 3,500 miles of Inner Asian border between Russia and China, a great shift in power neared completion last week. The vast, potentially rich (oil, coal, gold, wolfram, uranium) territory known as China's Northwest was falling into the Communist orbit...
...went on the air sometime after midnight. "If the image was wobbly it wasn't because of bad transmission," she says. "It was just my make-up blurring." Another night a "deuce" (2,000-watt spotlight) exploded while she was singing a number called Lovers' Gold. Showered by shattered glass from the smoking, spluttering lamp, Bargy didn't miss a single tremulous note. Besides poise, she has developed a phenomenal memory for lyrics, spot commercials and program notes, because she is too nearsighted to read either sheet music or off-camera cards...
...Irishman is tough; I had a 65 and I'm only one up." After lunch, Mangrum fell one hole behind before the pace told on Daly, who blew up and lost, 4 and 3. That match sunk the British (seven matches to five) and saved the neat little gold cup which has been in U.S. possession for 14 years...
Over 600 graduates of the University and their immediate relatives arrived in California September 9 a century late. It was the 1949 meeting of the Associated Harvard Clubs, not gold, and it brought them to San Francisco, not Sutter's Mill...