Word: goldens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...begin as the privilege of a governing race, will gradually be extended until it is enjoyed by all; and pax, the product of the other two, the belief in the mission of imperial government, based evenly upon the foundations of justice and national authority, to bring in the golden age when war shall cease from the earth...
...deep into the smelling game, 42-year-old Bill Nassaur, Denver-born-&-bred son of a Syrian importer made egg beaters, clothes hangers, and lids for syrup and cream pitchers. His father and brother were experimenting with toiletries for men, and it was Bill who got the golden idea that packaging was all-important. He dressed the Nassaur elixirs in regal flagons of porcelain and richly colored glass, introduced them in 1937 through tony shops and department stores...
...soil is not so rich as Europe's in buried clues to the great treasure hunt of history, but it has had its moments. In 1827, Joseph Smith told of finding near Palmyra, N.Y., the cache of inscribed golden tablets* later translated into the Book of Mormon. Some years later another Mormon named James Jesse Strang found another cache of engraved tablets (brass this time) in Walworth County, Wis. In 1869 diggers near Cardiff, N.Y. unearthed what was thought to be petrified proof positive of a vanished race of American supermen-until it developed that...
...Brunswick, welcoming close to 500 cars a day, roughly figured its take was already close to $8,000,000, with more business to come in September and October (a hunting month). Ontario, in a golden daze, was sure last year's $96,000,000 tourist income would be topped by at least 20%. French Canada estimated that it would entertain at least 15 million Americans, knew only that the profit would be enormous...
...pinch. It needed upwards of $300 million to develop the new Orange Free State field (TIME, April 29). Industrial expansion and new mining machinery would soak up millions more. Although sound and prosperous, South Africa did not have this sort of money on hand. U.S. businessmen, still outside the golden circle, saw the chance of a lifetime. Two U.S. firms lost no time taking...