Word: goldens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rusty Red Dog. Despite the billion tons of rich bituminous coal still underground, conveyors and tipples are being sold for scrap metal; white-frame company towns such as Red Bud, Golden Ash and Kenvir are boarded up and rotting; in Closplint and Punkin Center, streets rust-colored from a half century of "red dog"-slate and clinker dust-are quiet and deserted. Miners who could afford to have gone off to Paducah, Louisville, Cincinnati or even Chicago. Others, who could not, are in worse trouble than in the Depression '30s. In Kenvir (pop. 800), where the Peabody Coal...
...came apart at the seams more often than an overloaded grocery bag. Apart from the day she pendulated across the Avenida Atlântica glued into her briefest bikini (thus causing a three-car crash), almost nothing stayed on. That night, as she danced in the Copacabana Palace Golden Room, an enterprising Brazilian yanked on the zipper at the back of her dress and. presto, 0 Busto was bare to the waist...
...science's deepest mysteries is what makes living creatures grow and what makes most of them stop growing as they reach maturity. In Nature, Professor Carroll M. Williams of Harvard describes research that may cast light on this basic mystery. He has extracted from mammalian tissues a "golden oil" that, injected into a caterpillar, stops its development and prevents its transformation into a butterfly...
...search, Physiologist Williams found a substance apparently identical with the juvenile hormone in nearly every animal material from tenderloin steak to the human placenta. The richest source in any mammal seems to be the thymus gland, which is believed to control growth. Significantly, Williams found no trace of his golden oil in any vegetable...
...Only in America, Golden...