Word: lode
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prosecution testimony, sleek-haired Robert Harrison finally decided to mine his own lode of dirt for some 60 stories a year on show folks, and in 1955 set up a West Coast smut station called Hollywood Research Inc. (TIME, March 11.) Man-and-womaned by Harrison's niece, icy-faced, flame-haired Marjorie Meade and husband Fred.* H.R.I, handed out checks at the rate of $10,000 a month in one six-month period to keep pay dirt oozing into Harrison's shabby Manhattan headquarters...
...Lode. Louise's luck was phenomenal. She got to the freewheeling West when her father, after serving in the Mexican War, settled in tiny Downieville, Calif., where his earnings went into worthless mining stocks. Louise, her mother and grandmother joined him after a journey of 5,000 miles by boat and muleback. At 16, pretty, dark-haired Louise made a disastrous marriage to a local doctor who was as calamitous a speculator as her father. When he was found dying at Poverty Hill, Calif., riddled by drugs and alcohol, 22-year-old Louise was left penniless with a crippled...
...ablest of a syndicate of shrewd Irishmen who pickaxed their way from the mines to mansions on San Francisco's Nob Hill, he was a husky man who stuttered when angry and had an ambition as single-track as her own: to become the master of the Comstock Lode. Mackay broke the Bank of California's hold on the land, and the earth's hold on its riches - burrowing 1,200 feet into the lode to uncover the Big Bonanza vein. "By God now that we've made the riffle you're entitled to your...
...life came when she was presented to Victoria, Queen not only of England but of everything that Louise Mackay most admired. In Author Berlin's simple account of that occasion, two symbols can be glimpsed: the Kohinoor diamond on the Queen's breast and the Comstock Lode that had carried Louise to Buckingham Palace. The fabulous diamond and the fabulous silver mine, the power of empire and the American frontier thus met; they could scarcely be expected to understand each other, but their meeting nonetheless seemed to have about it a touch of destiny, even of continuity...
Last week, with production up to 150 tons of ore daily, the mine's new owners were looking for a processing mill to handle their rich lode. One possibility was that they would buy the AEC's only remaining reduction mill at Monticello, Utah, use it to mill their...