Word: gold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rhythms, the candidate himself rolled up in a big black car, grinning and waving, pumping outthrust hands. After his speech -always approximately the same ("It's won for me-why should I change?")-Happy rang down the curtain with a song, usually There's a Gold Mine...
Everywhere the Russian farmers stopped to talk to children, kiss and play shyly with babies. Eying pretty farm girls, they nudged each other and giggled like schoolboys. They played rustic jokes on newsmen and on each other, passed out hundreds of green-and-gold souvenir medals from the Moscow agricultural fair...
Even in the paddock, the mousy little man in the gold and white silks seemed out of place. He flicked his whip in the dust and scuffled his boots like an embarrassed kid. Beyond him New York's Saratoga Raceway came alive with rural vigor; floodlights brightened over the hayseed atmosphere of a country carnival. Grandstand and clubhouse bulged with bettors, lines lengthened at pari-mutuel windows, tip-sheet hustlers hawked their wares. Joseph Cyril O'Brien, 38, looked just a little overawed by all the excitement...
Strong Contender. The shy youngster who reached River Hebert with only $2 in his pocket now wins more than $300,000 a year, is a trotting equivalent of "Sunny Jim" Fitzsimmons and Eddie Arcaro combined. He drives a Cadillac painted in the bright gold and white colors of his stables, and he modestly gives the credit for his good luck to the St. Christopher medal he wears...
Black into Gold. In the electrical equipment field, General Electric's earnings set a new peak for the second quarter, going from $45,827,000 last year to $51,323,000 this year. Sylvania told the same happy tale, with its $2,840,364 earnings setting an alltime second-quarter high for the company and more than doubling its earnings of $1,401,298 during the period last year. The high level of consumer income and spending showed up in food-company earnings. Pepsi-Cola hit the brightest spot: six-month net shot...