Word: goldens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stay on the mountain tallying birds, while his wife stays at the foot of the mountain directing visitors, mostly neighbors. Majority of birds that fly over are ordinary broad-winged hawks, sharp-shinned hawks, eastern red-tailed hawks. Among thousands, however, are the rare golden eagles, turkey vultures, bald eagles, an occasional gyrfalcon flying down from Greenland...
...Minneapolis Coach Bernie Bierman gave his Golden Gophers a warm-up against North Dakota State, used 55 players including five quarterbacks to finish 69-to-7. Halfback Andy Uram played only a few minutes in the third quarter, but long enough for four streaking runs, two of which resulted in touchdowns...
...Football scribes rub their chins and don't say very much. Asked about Harvard soccer, the good scribe does the same thing but he might put his tongue in his check. There is a distinct feeling that Varsity Coach Jack Carr may be about to open a golden...
...Unlike John Mackay, George Hearst, William S. O'Brien, who also made fortunes in Nevada. George Wingfield did not emigrate to another State. Presently he owned twelve banks, a chain of gambling halls, many mines, a string of race horses and two Reno hotels, the Riverside and Golden. Potent in State politics, he became popular by his generosity in grubstaking ranchers and prospectors. He was known as "King George...
Last week "King George" once more loomed on the Nevada scene with a big stack of blue chips. He let it be known that he had regained control of Hotels Riverside and Golden and stood to make considerable on a new mine. When his personal crash came, "King George'' had found others as glad to grubstake him as he had always been to grubstake the down-&-out. State Senator Noble Getchell gave him a half interest in a low-grade surface mine near Winnemucca where they are now building a gold mill due to begin operations about...