Word: miner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dozens of adventurers carrying creased, crude maps have gone after the treasure. None of them found it, but more than 30 died trying. In 1931 a retired Government worker set out for Lost Dutchman's. Months later, his bleached skull was found, pierced by a bullet hole. A miner named Williamson, another named Lamb, a magazine writer named Scuelebtz, all followed maps into the Superstition Mountain fastness-and were never seen again. Only two years ago a prospector left his campsite in the middle of a meal and disappeared forever...
...legislation and legislators he belabored had no desire to change labor's hard-won basic rights. Today's miner, at $24.25 per diem, could hardly be called downtrodden. (Nor could John L. Lewis, still the $50,000-per-year U.M.W. president and a power in the National Bank of Washington as well.) The concern of Congress and of the U.S. in 1959 is the gangsterism and brutality that infest the unions and threaten the working man. With oratory and belligerence out of the past, John L. Lewis was fighting for a cause already won, defending a crime against...
Blind Lead the Blind. Oil fever sent men searching in the unlikeliest places on the unlikeliest leads. A miner in California, Edward Doheny, sniffed oil when he spotted an ice wagon loaded with tar jolting along a Los Angeles street before the century's turn; he rustled up another prospecting pal, Charles Canfield, and with pick and shovel they dug a 4-ft. by 6-ft. shaft 165 ft. down into the nearby tar pits, struck a field that was to flow more than 70 million bbl., lead to the discovery of another 6 billion...
...South Shore Room of Bill Harrah's Club at Stateline, Nev. last week had gone into the Sierra foothills with the same single-minded purpose that sent the Forty-Niners up the same steep trail more than a century ago. But there was this difference: the miner stood a fair chance of taking his gold out of the hills; the gamblers stand a better chance of leaving it there. Bill Harrah's glossy casinos-two on the shore of Lake Tahoe, one 56 miles away in Reno-are a rich vein only for their owner. The prospectors...
...bright U.S. high school graduates these days, scholarships pop up like gold nuggets in a lucky miner's pan. Last week from its headquarters in Evanston, Ill., the National Merit Scholarship Corp. announced the names of 850 winners-a record crop in the biggest, fastest growing privately supported scholarship program in U.S. history...