Word: golden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pittsburgh, distressed at overhearing a worker gabbing about production results in a war-geared steel mill. Advertising Executive Robert Post began distributing posters reading: "Sealed lips stop tips. Don't talk to strangers about your work. Silence is golden. Help preserve American industry...
This is an immortal folk tale. In Nature Magazine last week Ornithologists Lewis and Marian Walker produced proof it is moonshine. They had worked it all out with weights on a powerful and well-muscled golden eagle...
With a wingspread of six to seven feet, the adult golden eagle is about the same size as the full-grown bald eagle (U. S. national emblem) but the golden eagle is fiercer and stronger. It preys mostly on small mammals such as rabbits and squirrels, whereas the bald eagle's favorite food is fish. The Walkers took a baby golden eagle from an eyrie in California, christened him "Caesar," trained him to fly and return like a falcon. When Caesar was fully grown, they tested his capacity load...
Like New York's World's Fair, San Francisco's Golden Gate International Exposition started this year with an apparently bad handicap: lack of access to such foreign art collections as last year's show (valued at $20,000,000) of Italian old masters. To make up for this loss, the Fine Arts Palace on Treasure Island added contemporary European, Mexican paintings; a collection, unique in the U. S., of South and Central American art assembled by Dr. Grace McCann Morley, director of the San Francisco Museum of Art. Also added was the most complete exhibit...
mural to do for the Golden Gate Exposition...