Word: goldfield
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Beyond the gaudy city limits the desert closes in, and beyond the funereal mountains in the distance lie the ghosts of boom towns past-Virginia City, Goldfield, Bullfrog and the others. Now & then the dice dance nervously and the windows jitter from the effects of a pre-dawn atomic blast at the AEC's test center 70 miles away. But there is no uneasiness, no sense of doom in Las Vegas even when mushroom clouds are rising beyond the horizon. Says a native Vegan: "It just couldn't happen. This is just the beginning...
This prosperity was almost too good to last. Chicago had scores of policy "wheels" -the circular devices from which winning numbers are drawn. Each "wheel" was named-there was the Erie-Buffalo-Goldfield Wheel, the B & O, the Windy City-Subway-Big Town. Each was served by hundreds of runners and had thousands of loyal customers. Each was a gold mine. The Capone Syndicate set out to consolidate them into one big gold mine...