Word: golds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Diplomatic Gold Fish, still glass enclosed, now sit upon a dais, exposed to the pitiless peering of visitors and correspondents comfortably seated throughout the "bowl...
...Montana did its roaring while the East was enjoying the elegant '80s. In 1870, only 241 men and women were staking their fortunes on the 6-foot pit in the earth which two prospectors had discovered six years earlier. They were tapping surface veins of gold and silver. They did not suspect that the real wealth of Montana's barren hills lay deeper in the earth...
...years later, a little man, almost buried in a great shock of hair and beard, came up from Colorado and began to deepen the Butte pits. William A. Clark learned his trade in a quartz mine and lost his savings in a gold mine. In Butte, he dug for copper. Gold miners, seeing his wagons start out on their 400-mile trek to the nearest railroad at Corinne, Utah, laughed aloud. "There go Clark's rocks," they jeered. And they were 98.37% right. Only 1.63% of the gray copper ore can be reduced to valuable metal...
Europe thereby gained a unique distinction. There was little else that Jay Gould could not buy. On occasion, he found it advisable and practicable to buy railroads, judges, newspapers, city governments, friends, banks. Once, when his mind conceived the extraordinary stroke of cornering Gold, he attempted, and very nearly accomplished, the purchase of the U. S. government...
...story of Jay Gould. It is not so much, perhaps, that consumption took its gradual toll of his energies and powers. Nor is it that his chief business intimates died penniless, or insane, or by violence. Gould had the Midas-touch. He transmuted the most unlikely stuff into gold. But in the transmuting he took from it all life and beauty, left it deflowered and pitiful. Said pleasure-loving Jim Fisk: "Gould lets everyone carry out his own corpse." Said pious, ruthless Daniel Drew: "His touch is as death...