Word: mine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...daughters of a Brazilian who married off his girls without their leave by the simple process of interviewing the proposing swains. Helena records family stories of how the girls "used to peek through the keyhole and tell each other, 'I think that so-and-so's mine.' " Helena's mother was one of only two who married for love, and it was-as charmingly seen through a child's eyes-a beautiful marriage. But daddy was hooked by the diamond fever, and no amount of hard work helped because he never found enough diamonds. Helena...
...year-old onetime plumber's helper, to Italy's midget-car giant, Fiat. It was Innocenti's second big challenge to Fiat. The first he won handily. He maneuvered Fiat out of its share of a joint Fiat-Innocenti contract to build a $342 million Venezuelan mine-to-mill steel complex on the Orinoco River to exploit a nearby mountain of high-grade (up to 60%) ore. Innocenti left Italy a year ago, planned to spend a few days looking into the Venezuelan prospects. The more he looked the better he liked what he saw; after five...
...that Georgia's Richard Brevard Russell, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, is aggressively dissatisfied with the answers the committee is getting from the Pentagon on U.S. defense policy. "Say, tell me about Dick Russell," said Ike to an aide. "I thought he was a friend of mine. What's the matter with him? Why is he sore at us?" Answered the astonished aide: "Why, Mr. President, you can't expect him to be very happy over the Little Rock situation and use of Federal troops." "Golly," said Ike of the man who last summer directed...
...spectrum" are bright, and some scientists are making from 10,000 to 20,000 bucks a year, but that is because of the vast army of small, dark, unknown plodders in U.S. science (like myself) whose salary plus commissions, etc. runs between $5,000 and $10,000 a year (mine: $6,000), and plenty of them get less than that...
Lodes in the Veld. Ernest Oppenheimer went to South Africa in 1902 as a diamond buyer for a London firm. He was short (5 ft. 4 in.), and diffident in manner. But he went quickly and quietly about the business of learning how to mine on the veld and deal with figures in the office. Ten years later, the citizens of Kimberley, home of five of the world's greatest diamond mines, elected him mayor...