Word: golden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Faculty, being composed of men typifying Aristotle's golden mean, voted to curb only the freedom of the Plan B men, who must now do more than merely register for second-half-year courses. Plan A men, as of old, go scot-free on the theory that their thesis work more than compensates. Whether there will be an epidemic of Plan A-ing remains to be seen...
...golden era of salesmen ended with the '29 crash, nobody told Waters about it. His fortunes rose as the business curve went down. By 1933 he had enough money to buy the San Francisco office building (original cost: $1,250,000) in which he started his business. Last year he branched into selling De Sotos on Long Island, upped his sales to about 4% of De Soto's entire output. Meanwhile he had tackled the taxi business...
...emigrated. English industrialists used the Irish famine as a pretext to repeal the Corn Laws (which limited food imports). This, says Chemist Large, was "perhaps the most significant single event in the history of the British Empire." Reason: it inaugurated Free Trade and the Empire's Golden Age. Groused the Duke of Wellington: "Rotten potatoes have done...
Present owner of many of the mines (as well as the field's ore mill and railroad) is Golden Cycle Corp. After the town of Cripple Creek was refused a Federal loan to dig a third drainage tunnel, Golden Cycle decided to risk about $2,000,000 of its own money...
...tunnel is 3,300 ft. below ground, will be about 32,000 ft. long; Golden Cycle claims that it will be the longest of its kind ever dug. The company hopes to sell the water for irrigation purposes. New ore discoveries also will foot part of the bill; last month the diggers struck a vein assaying $65 a ton, six times as much as most of the ore now mined from the field...