Word: lode
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Still exploring minor veins in the Lincoln lode, historical pickmen sometimes hit upon a passable grade of ore. This book is an example of the work of a noted Lincoln scholar, digging up minutiae of value. It was at the old Illinois capital of Vandalia that 27-year-old Abraham Lincoln solved a tricky problem in practical politics, and it is useful to know not only that he did it, as the biographies attest, but precisely...
Died. Tom Creighton, 75, co-discoverer of the fabulously rich Canadian Flin Flon mine; after long illness; in Flin Flon, Man. Creighton (and five others) stumbled on the Manitoba lode in 1915, named it after a fictional explorer in a British pulp-magazine thriller. The partners sold out (Creighton got $100,000) and the new owners began digging in 1925, spent $27 million before Flin Flon started paying off ($250 million worth) in gold, copper, silver and zinc...
After wartime service in Africa, ex-Lieut. Colonel Lansdell K. Christie heard about Liberia's "Devil Mountain," a rich lode of iron ore in the Bomi Hills. Business-wise Christie, who had made a small fortune operating a barge line in New York, went back to Liberia after he was demobilized. He wangled a concession from the Liberian government to mine the mountain area, where ore assayed 68% iron (average in the Mesabi Range...
Profitable Lode. The moneymaking Gazette, which once got most of its outside news by printing the letters of traveling readers as "foreign correspondence" now has U.P. and A.P. service and a list of national columnists (Winchell, Bob Hope, E. V. Durling). But it also keeps its smalltown flavor and emphasis on local affairs, and as Alexandria's only daily, mines a profitable lode of local advertising. It makes little attempt to compete with nearby Washington papers...
Long about ten years ago, Hollywood historians dug into the exploits of the notorious James boys (of St. Joe, not Cambridge) and found enough material for two full-length movies. The mother lode has run out, though, and the golden moments in "I Shot Jesse James" are not worth anywhere near the 85 cents it costs to assay them...