Word: mined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Halloween, 1926, mischievous Charles Vance Millar, rich, unmarried Canadian lawyer, silver mine owner and race track gambler, died in Toronto. When his will was examined it was found that he had left $500,000 to that Toronto mother who bore the most children within the next decade. To be counted, the offspring might be born alive or dead, legitimate or illegitimate. With Oct. 31 just six weeks away, the Toronto baby derby last week entered the home stretch. Five fecund women were running almost neck & neck. Of these, three would be out of the money if anyone bettered their record...
...stocks might pass over Kaw Crow, Grull Wihksne, McLeod Cockshutt, Cotton Belt, Porcupine Crown, Buffalo Ankerite, Canadian Malartic, Ymir Yankee Girl. But 'they could hardly resist the most glittering name of all-Yukon Gold. From an investment manual they would be shockingly undeceived. Yukon Gold does nothing but mine tin in the Federated Malay States...
...mills have been closed less than a week as the result of labor troubles. To his well wishers last week he replied, extemporaneously, having lost his notes in the confusion: "This tribute is not for me. It is for the company, my associates and employes. The glory is not mine so much as it is ours and we appreciate it from the bottom of our hearts. . . . Thank you and God bless...
...during a period of "stabilization," copper men squeezed their price up to stratospheric levels of nearly 24? per lb. It was a cordial invitation to open every high-cost mine in the world. By 1933, the U. S. price was down to less than 5? per lb., foreign quotations...
...Balatoc mine was a $500,000 hole in the ground, which borrowed $250,000 more, paid it back from earnings in less than two years and by 1934 was paying $2,000,000 a year in dividends. Several other mines have had smaller but equally brilliant records, accompanied by tales of Tom-Dick-&-Harry made rich overnight...