Word: laking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wooded south shore of Ontario's Mackeith Lake swarmed with prospectors, mining engineers, drillers, bulldozer drivers, government geologists, get-rich-quick investors. The lure: gold. Ontario has had many a gold strike, big & little, and this latest, made by a lucky prospector in his fifties named Burke, looked as if it might...
Lean and leather-tough Joe Burke has spent 40-odd years hunting gold. As a $250-a-month prospector (employed by Toronto's Rush Lake and Berwick Mining Companies), he was in the Mackeith Lake country last June with a young Indian helper named Maynard Bromley. One hot day they worked their way through the virgin timberland around the lake, scrambling over fallen firs and through heavy underbrush. Ahead they saw a mound heavily covered with northern moss...
Just where the strike stood, nobody quite knew. From his emergency headquarters in Detroit, burly, bent-nosed N.M.U. President Joe Curran predicted that the N.M.U. drive for a 40-hour-week, pay boosts and a Union hiring hall would paralyze lake shipping in 10 days. His early count of 105 ships and 4,000 men idle differed sharply, however, from a press survey (56 ships idle...
...having similar visions (TIME, Aug. 19). Individual missiles had been streaking over the country since May, but now they were coming in swarms. Last week, Stockholm's Aftonbladet reported that an Army plane collided with one of the "things." Three flyers were killed. Two Swedes boating on a lake barely missed being sunk by one "thing...
...Salt Lake Tabernacle (Sun. 11:30 a.m., CBS). Grieg's Nocturne, Mendelssohn's Arise, Rise Up, and other selections by choir and organ...