Word: golds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even the London Times, that everlasting defender of conventional suitability, complained that the tricorn, when worn as Sir George wanted it, presents "a formidable challenge to all but the most piquant of faces." Sir George could not understand what the uproar was about, pointed with pride to "the little gold blob," adding: "Very feminine, that...
...gaze at the stands of tall timber, the schools of ocean salmon and herds of sea otter. Within a few years British merchantmen plied regular routes from the British Columbia coasts with cargoes of furs for China, Britain and the U.S. Pelts were only the beginning. The cry "gold" brought a clamoring horde of adventurers sweeping north from the U.S. to mining camps along the Fraser in the 1850s. By 1885, when a rail line stitched British Columbia to the rest of Canada, the province was already...
...longer than British Columbians care to admit, trapping, timber and gold were enough to satisfy most of the immigrants. As late as 1939, the province had only two inhabitants per square mile of territory. The road system was primitive, the railroads-except for the transcontinental lines-a hoary joke. "You've got the scenery, you've got the timber," went an old refrain, "but I'm going East where the money...
Animal or Chemical? Last week, 48 years after his original preconception-shattering experiments, Peyton Rous stood before an audience in Manhattan to acknowledge a new honor in the string that has been lengthening since 1927: one of the Albert Lasker Awards ($2,500 plus a gold Winged Victory) of the American Public Health Association-one of medicine's brightest "Oscars...
Corporate profits, following just about everything else (see above), are turning up-and in some cases turning up sharply. Among the standouts last week was P. Lorillard Co. (Kent, Newport, Old Gold). President Lewis Gruber, who took over two years ago and soon started sales soaring, reported third-quarter earnings of $7,478,350 v. $3,076,028 last year. For the first nine months of 1958, Lorillard earned $19,303,199 or $6.46 a share v. $1.82 for the comparable 1957 period...