Word: golds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...snoozing legislators had doubtless been dreaming about what all the West and Southwest has eaten, drunk and slept the past fortnight-GOLD. The rush and scrabble for some of the $78,000 lode struck lately at Weepah, down near the slanting California lino (TIME, March 21), continued last week to swell and assume bright color. Blizzards and gales that swept Weepah tenters down the canon, did not cool the yellow metal fever. Nearby Tonopah, base camp for the skirmishers, buzzed with brokers, show girls, sour-doughs, eager tourists. Buying and selling of mine shares was fast and furious...
...gold mania spread north to Walla Walla, Wash. A butcher found six nuggets in two chickens' crops. . . . It spread south to Arizona. Miners at Dripping Springs started a rush by declaring they had found lode worth $100,000 per ton. (Oldtimers scented a stock-selling game.) It spread west to California...
American Radiator has at its "front door" its gold-topped black tower building in Manhattan, at its "back door" a group of expert foundrymen. Both were essential factors in making the company earn $12,476,485 net profits last year...
Died. Benjamin Franklin Smith, 96, perhaps richest New Englander ($50,000,000), who built the world's second largest stockyard in Omaha, Neb.; in Boston. With his three brothers he started his career by buying a gold mine near Pike's Peak, Col., which was thought to be a quartz claim. General Fitz-John Porter† attempted to bore into the claim. Gold-miner Smith forthwith made an opening into the outlaw shaft from below, built a fire, and smoked out the General's workers. The General promptly installed a huge fan which blew the smoke down...
...winner of the local competition will receive a prize of $100, and will become the Harvard entrant in the final competition for the intercollegiate prize. This competition will be held simultaneously in the several colleges on May 14, and its winner will receive a prize of $500 and a gold medal. C. E. Wyzanski '27, who won the Harvard contest last year, was awarded the inter-collegiate prize as well...