Word: goldings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chamber nearby, a hoist operator scanned two closed-circuit TV screens that monitor the ore buckets, make sure they are dumping properly into large collection bins. Above ground, at the end of the production process, refinery workers were pouring Brick No. 37,035-a 30-lb. hunk of solid gold worth...
...mine is at Lead (rhymes with bleed), S. Dak., and it is the nation's biggest, most consistently profitable pot of gold. Last year its owner, San Francisco's Homestake Mining Co., extracted a record 628,259 oz. of gold bullion, more than one-third of total U.S. production, sold it to the U.S. Treasury for $22 million at a profit...
Slapstick Tragedy. Tennessee Williams can sift the soul's gold from human dross. Unhappily, this double bill of one-acters. which closed after seven performances, is almost pure dross...
...even with a more responsive audience, problems will remain. George Rosen is always droll as Finian, a dotty old Irishman who has stolen a crock of leprechaun gold and buried it near Fort Knox, an area he believes conducive to spontaneous generations. Carolyn Firth, his ready, nubile, and willing daughter, is a pretty girl and a charming actress. But neither of them seems quite at home in a brogue; Rosen at times simply deserts Belfast for Brooklyn. And Miss Firth, for all the attractiveness of her voice, shares with many of the other singers a tendency toward inaudibility...
Randy Lindel, as the colleen's Missituckian beau, and Peter Houghteling, as the bigoted legislator, Billboard Rawkins, were adequate but little more. William Hodes, as Og, the rightful owner of Finian's gold, displayed a physique as unelvishly robust as his singing voice (he spoke in a coy falsetto). Other members of the cast, however, were more successful...