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King of the mountain was Horace ("Hod") Tabor, a shambling boor and former storekeeper who had grubstaked two starving prospectors to $64.75 worth of provisions. Only ten months later, Hod wound up with the Matchless and other prodigious silver mines that were to earn him as much as $4 million a year - in taxless 1880 dollars. After his first meeting with Baby, who had judiciously selected him as her private grubstake, Hardrock Horace bought off her current protector and made Baby Doe his mistress. No matter that he was 53 and she 23, or that he was married...
...this meticulously researched biography shows, Tabor also bought forests in Honduras, minelands in Mexico, and more and more real estate. In their ten years of marriage, Hod and Baby squandered some $12 million. He even figured that he could buy his way into the White House but got no closer to it than the U.S. Senate, where he served a blessedly brief term as an interim appointee. Then, in 1893, the U.S. went back on the gold standard; the price of silver, which had been supported by the Government, plummeted. In the depression that ensued, Tabor went broke even faster...
...from the original retreat and that some soldiers had not yet found their units. While the ultimate strategy will be determined in Tel Aviv, Hofi insisted that, "we must bring them to a point which will not produce a cease-fire but a surrender." Air Force Major General Mordechai Hod agreed: "This time we must force them to the peace table. How much we will have to punish them to achieve this is unclear at this point...
...thousand troops-including miniskirted Women's Army Corps members carrying submachine guns -marched briskly along the city's ancient streets. More than 400 aircraft, led by Air Force Commanding General Mordechai Hod in a Phantom fighter-bomber, roared overhead in precision formations; in one configuration, twelve Mirage fighters formed a Star of David. On the heavily guarded reviewing stand were President Zalman Shazar, Prime Minister Golda Meir, Defense Minister Moshe Dayan and Chief of Staff David Elazar...
...Navy ensign during World War I, managing exports for a meat packer and sales for a truck company. The presidency of the Stockade Building System (1922-27) sounds more like it. Fuller and his father-in-law copatented a tough, light substitute for bricks that eliminated the need for hod carriers and mortars. Holes in the blocks were lined up and cement poured in. Both the brick industry and the unions ganged up against the idea (which was later successfully renewed), and the company folded...