Word: golden
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Minneapolis, Dallas, and Palo Alto are the gridiron capitals of the nation today. The Golden Gophers are favored to bottle up Tom Harmon; the S.M.U. Mustangs will once more prove the rule that no team can ever win the Southwestern title two years in a row by upsetting the Texas Aggies; and Washington will win the Western Rose Bowl assignment by tripping up the Stanford Indians...
With one on the East Coast, another on the West Coast, Americans have been fair-conscious for two years. But now it is all over. San Francisco's Golden Gate International Exposition closed Sept. 29, New York's this week. Neither made a success story...
...Golden Gate Exposition cost about $40,000,000 (combined total invested by the Government, State, City, exhibitors, bondholders). This year it ran 128 days (half the 1939 run) and claimed 6,544,612 visitors against 10,496,203 last year. Total 1940 income was $5,507,000, enough to cover expenses, leave $1,306,000 in the bank. Reorganized because of heavy losses in the first year, the Exposition has three types of creditors (excluding direct lenders, who got back their full stake). Together they sank $5,695,000 in the extravaganza; wound up with...
...Willkie train rocked eastward into the last two weeks before election. Newsmen waited to hear the exchange when the golden Roosevelt voice began to pour across the land...
...could talk, Pittsburghers would give much to hear what the richly carved panels of the Duquesne Club had to say. For of all U. S. businessmen's clubs, the Duquesne is among the richest and most discreet. Its big, squarish, brownstone-fronted building in the centre of the Golden Triangle is the citadel of Pittsburgh tycoonery. There Mellons, Scaifes, Weirs, Benedums, McClintics, other Pittsburgh bigwigs eat, drink, relax, play poker, shoot craps, make deals. Some 35 corporations maintain suites for business purposes at the Duquesne...