Word: mine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Found More Skeleton." The scheme that finally got Con Man Moore was his "Lost Wheelbarrow Mine." To help promote it, in 1936, he used one of the most spectacular stunts in the long history of mine frauds. He got an unsuspecting partner to tell the story to millions of prospects all at once on the nationwide radio program, We the People...
...story, according to Moore: in the 1880's two prospectors discovered a fabulously rich vein of gold-bearing ore in the hills 20 miles outside of Moscow, Idaho. One shot the other, then headed to town, leaving a wheelbarrow to mark the mine...
...this built up his story so well that some 1,200 investors, replying to his golden-phrased letters, bought stock in the mine. To keep interest at a high level, Moore sent to stockholders such telegrams as "Found more of skeleton. Skull has bullet hole through temple. Everything going good...
...cell this week Moore, as usual, had a lot of ideas running through his head. He plans to sell magazine articles telling readers how gullible they are. As for his story about the Lost Wheelbarrow Mine, it is all absolutely true, he said. Every word...
...decide what is good for Europe and for our country is a matter of reason, of faith and instinct. It is a problem of conscience for each one of us, and I have spoken in accordance with mine...