Word: mine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...report in the May 17 issue that National Geographic's new editor John La Gorce's office is "cyprus-paneled." How I envy him! Mine is cypress-paneled, but lucky La Gorce's is paneled with the birthplace of Venus...
Summing up his 25 years as Housemaster, Ferry says, "Harvard is a gold mine littered with nuggets, some good and some bad. You can get some good ones if you look hard enough. But nobody is going to ram them down your throat...
...large band of Arabs. "After many minutes of trying to convince them that we were les Americains and not Frenchmen, who were being shot at the time, the sheik called for silence, indicated he would give me the test. In complete silence he stuck his wrinkled face up to mine and said, with a look of infinite cunning, the only American word he knew: 'Okay.' I replied emphatically, 'Okay.' The sheik shouted his approval, the tribesmen clapped their hands, and the Berber women set up their welcoming...
JOHN L. LEWIS' Mine Workers union, which already owns the National Bank of Washington, third largest in the capital, is buying stock to get control of the Hamilton National Bank, fourth largest. Combined, the two banks would have deposits of $220 million (including the union's welfare fund), and would be 100th biggest in the country...
HIGH-GRADE MICA, too costly to mine in the U.S., will soon be made synthetically for the electronics industry. Mycalex Corp. of Clifton, N.J. has found an inexpensive way to make mica of magnesium, aluminum, silicon and fluorine, is ready to swing into large-scale production after successfully operating a pilot plant. Eventually, the process may make the U.S. less dependent on foreign supplies of high-grade mica, 95% of which (about 26 million lbs. annually) is imported from India...