Word: golds
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Texaco grew from one great gusher. In 1901 Joseph Cullinan, a former Standard Oil employee, found black gold on Spindletop Hill, near Beaumont, Texas. The next year he formed the Texas Co., and by 1928 it was operating in all 48 states. Texaco ventured overseas in 1936, when it teamed up with Standard Oil of California to market Middle Eastern oil. It also bought an interest in California Arabian Standard Oil, which held a major concession in Saudi Arabia. That company later became Aramco, a consortium that joined Saudi Arabia and American producers...
...evokes memories of the long ago midnight knock on the door. The port of entry to the most deadly archipelago of the Gulag system, it became a synonym for the terror Joseph Stalin visited upon the land. At least 2 million prisoners were worked to death in its gold mines and timber forests and on its road projects. Since then, with few exceptions, the city of Magadan and the vast region around it have been closed to foreigners. When the Soviets permitted a small group to visit Magadan, Moscow Bureau Chief James O. Jackson was among them. His report...
...there, it is only in the figurative sense. Survivors of the highway construction said the dead could not be buried in the permanently frozen earth and were dumped instead in riverside snowbanks. Their corpses were washed away with the spring runoff and finally came to rest on the gold- rich bed of the Kolyma River...
PERHAPS IN AN attempt to remedy the situation, local impresarios Candace Avery and Peter Gold created the Boston Music Awards. The idea was to "draw national attention to the area's great well of talent," says Avery, whose ex-husband's band, New Man, was nominated in five categories. "I sincerely believe there's no greater music city in the country," Gold says...
...Avery-Gold Productions, with help from local radio giant WBCN-FM, the Boston Phoenix, and even MTV--three organizations largely responsible for the promotion of many Boston acts and the neglect of many others-undertook this ambitious if quixotic effort to recognize virtually everyone in every facet of the Boston music scene, in a single evening's ceremony last week...