Word: golds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...merchant, Ernest Oppenheimer at his death was undisputed boss of the cartel that controls 95% of the world's diamond production, and he controlled more than 90 other companies worth an estimated $2.5 billion. His empire included coal, uranium, copper and some of the world's largest gold mines. Financially, he was the most powerful man in all Africa...
...diamonds but in gold that Ernest Oppenheimer got his first big break. Teaming with American Engineer W. L. Honnold, he went to London, explained the gold-mining possibilities of South Africa's East Rand district, persuaded J. P. Morgan & Co. and other firms to invest nearly $5,000,000 in their projected Anglo-American Corp. of South Africa...
...company prospered, but Oppenheimer was not content with gold. He liked diamonds. He spotted the possibilities in Southwest African fields captured from the Germans, and beat to the punch the stodgy starched-collared heirs of Cecil Rhodes, the legendary empire builder and diamond czar who died in 1902. Then he tackled the giant of the diamond world, De Beers Consolidated Mines, Ltd. He bored from within, buying stock on the Johannesburg exchange, share by share, until he had enough to become a director...
Fringe Benefits. Manufacturing is growing fastest in the Gold Coast tourist spas, where any company can attract employee talent with the free fringe benefits of sun and surf. Dade County (Miami) leads the state with 96 new plants in the first half of 1957; Broward County (Fort Lauderdale) is second with 51 plants. Pinellas County (St. Petersburg) is being transformed from a senior citizens' haven to a humming technical center. Since 1956, General Electric's X-Ray division has established a $7,000,000 plant, and Minneapolis-Honeywell Regulator Co. has opened a $4,500,000 missile-parts...
...restores them to health. Comes the day when the hardhearted vet orders Thomasina to be chloroformed. She is buried to the skirl of bagpipes, but the vet's brokenhearted daughter won't speak to him. How the witch magically restores Thomasina to life, unveils the heart of gold under the cruel vet's tartan, and marries the man provides a fascinating and horrible example of how not to write about animals...