Word: gold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mauled, hugged, or decked in flowers by cheering crowds, Bell looked about him with more than a reporter's normal curiosity. Kansas-born, he had spent his formative years and attended high school (Brent School, class of '36) in the islands, where his father had managed a gold mine. There his parents had lived out most of the World War II years in Japanese internment...
...washtubs in a closet, they found another chapter: short pieces of pipe, three cheap pocket watches and some flashlight batteries. With hardly more than a nod from the cops, George put on his street clothes with his customary fastidiousness, bade his moaning sisters goodbye, and, beaming through his round, gold-rimmed glasses like a parish clergyman off on his rounds, drove downtown to headquarters...
Appointed in the Economics Department, John Johnston specializes in the application of statistical methods. He graduated from Queen's University, Belfast, in 1947 with a Gold Medallion in Economic Theory...
...Ivar. like Aristide. was past thinking and past explaining. At 11 a.m. he had shuttered the blinds of his unostentatiously elegant flat at No. 5 Avenue Victor Emmanuel and lain down neatly on his bed. Then he had drawn aside his black coat and the leather locket with the gold coin that always rested on his breast like a superstitious token of his only god. and shot himself with a 9-mm. Browning pistol, neatly through the middle of his heart...
...branched into iron and gold mines, newspapers and film companies (Greta Garbo got her first job as an extra in a Kreuger-financed film). Up to this time, Kreuger was an aggressive industrialist, but not the dishonest manipulator he later became. Yet he was in the grip of a grandiose passion-to make and sell every match in the world. He had always thought of himself as a superman, and in 1922 he had a superidea. He would personally shore up the tottering, post-World War I governments of Europe with loans, in return for match monopolies...