Word: gold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From some impressed French laborers, U.S. commanders got a tip that there was gold stored in the mine. All the Germans in Merkers who had anything to do with the mine were rounded up, and one of them was the assistant director of the Berlin museums, Dr. Paul Rave. He told the Americans about the paintings, and accompanied the first Americans, led by Colonel Russell, to visit the mine...
...Racetrack. Young Mattos Rodríguez sold La Cumparsita to a Buenos Aires publisher for 20 gold pesos, lost them at the races next day, later had to pay the money back when his contract with the publisher was voided because he was a minor. That was luck in disguise. In the years that followed, he made enough from La Cumparsita-and other tangos-to stake him to a comfortable life in Paris and free-spending afternoons at many a racetrack...
...Post-Dispatch received a $500 gold medal; individual prize winners, $500 each...
...second race, Eliot and Adams were deck and deck in the stretch when a Gold Coaster caught a crab, enabling the hard-pressed Mastodons to win by a length. Their time of 4:26 was the fastest of the day. Dudley's creaking, leaking hull finished third by about six lengths...
...Inter-House Athletic Council reversed itself last week and decided to hold a golf competition after all. So yesterday Cambridge's Fresh Pond Gold Course was invaded by four-man teams from all the Houses. They are playing an elimination tournament to determine the House links crown...