Word: gold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...coldest on earth. In the past, both Czarist and Soviet regimes have had to force people to live and work there. Tens of millions of hapless human slaves, cutting timber, tilling the bleak steppe, or digging through the permafrost (in some places 75 ft. deep) to get at the gold, iron, coal, copper, nickel, uranium, titanium, magnesium and bauxite have laid the foundations of a series of vast industrial enterprises. To develop this industry, the Soviet Union now needs the skills and crafts of mil lions of willing, i.e., voluntary, workers, and agricultural producers to feed them...
...Murrow discovered one place he had missed: the land of his ancestors, Central Africa. The entertainment possibilities were just too colorful to miss, so CBS shelled out some $25,000 to send Armstrong, his five-man All-Stars and a camera crew to the city of Accra, the Gold Coast, for a three-day junket. The results were as good as expected. "After all," explained Louis, "my descendants came from here...
From the minute he walked down the plane steps, the Gold Coast gleamed with 22-carat jive. On hand were 15 "highlife" bands (specialists in West Coast African jazz, with a, bouncing calypso beat), blatting out a special called All for You, Louis, All for You. No man to dodge a jam session, Louis ducked back into the plane and emerged with his gold-plated trumpet, his lip salve and his sidemen...
Some 30,000 Gold Coasters were waiting restlessly when he arrived. He made his apologies-"Man, I've been scoffing plenty with the P.M."-and started to play. Some fans dodged up to the bandstand and started to dance. One ran afoul of the cops, who roughed him up, leaving Louis depressed. "Man, that's why I left New Orleans. I don't like rough stuff...
...Army Topographical Corps when he headed his first three Far Western expeditions in the 1840s. His reports to the Government were written with the help of his talented wife; the first two were brought out by several book publishers of the day and became enormously popular during the gold rush. They were, in fact, indispensable, because while many a mountain man had scoured the West before Frémont, no one had observed it so well, mapped it so accurately, measured so methodically the temperatures and elevations. It was the difference between men looking for skins and a man bent...