Word: minerally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...centrifugal force for Director Wood's sentiment is the impudent, pug-nosed, forlorn little face of Hollywood's latest Cinderella-Betty Brewer, 13. Three years ago Betty's father, a Joplin, Mo. lead miner, lost his job, went on relief. The following year he joined the Okie parade to California, where he joined a hunger strike at the State Capitol in Sacramento. But Betty didn't like that. This is her story: "I decided we weren't gonna go on relief in Sacramento. So Ilene [her younger sister] and me worked out a plan...
Wearing a Willkie button in his lapel, Christian A. Herter '15, Republican Speaker of the House in the Massachusetts General Court, used his own career as an illustration of the "life and times of a Harvard man." Chemist, diplomat, teacher, miner, and politician, Herter advised less dogmatism and more open-minded readiness to benefit by opportunities...
...mahority of U.S. golf fans, Oliver was a nobody. Son of a Delaware coal miner, he had quietly come up from the caddy ranks to a job as golf pro at an obscure country club in Hornell, N.Y. Last winter, in his second trek over the Grapefruit Circuit, he won two tournaments: the Bing Crosby Open and the Phoenix Open. Except to his colleagues who toured the southern resorts and to spectators who happened to see his par-busting play, Ed Oliver was just another pro-until he was DISQUALIFIED...
When Simon Patino was born a poor cholo (half-Indian) in Cochabamba, Bolivia produced hardly any tin at all. When he grew up and became a clerk in a miner's supply store, he one day allowed a prospector to settle a $250 debt with the deed to a tin mine. This got him fired, put him in the tin business just as the mines of Saxony, Bohemia and Cornwall began to run out. By 1910 he was selling to Europe on a big scale. By 1912 he had $2,000,000 to buy more mines...
...Germany. They have made it a three-cushion game by also intriguing with the British, who, to preserve their profitable smelting monopoly, would rather not see Bolivian ore go direct to the U. S. But while Patino was in Spain, his old enemy and the No. 2 Bolivian tin miner, Mauricio Hochschild, took sides. Hochschild went to the U. S. last winter, contracted with Phelps Dodge Corp. to supply tin for its new experimental smelter (TIME, Dec. 11). Meanwhile American Metal Co. Ltd. and American Smelting and Refining Co. also built pilot plants, and learned how to process Bolivian...