Word: mines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...began to burble: "I had the most interesting two hours' talk I ever had in my life. I talked with one of the kindest, most genial, frank, open-minded and capable men I have ever met. We talked for two hours and that was his fault not mine...
...Toni's resentment of this proposed bargain and partly Penelope's charm that make him decide, on meeting his daughter, to keep her himself. He even decides to lead a new life, and Toni believes him although she knows he has financed his intentions by selling a bogus gold mine to Sir Guy Standing. At this point, with Sir Guy turning out to be twice as bogus as the mine, Jerry is forced by circumstances of his own making to remain what he has always been?a crook...
...issue of Aug. 20 I notice the face of Lucien Warner of corset fame?a colleague of mine on the Oberlin College Trustee Board. His father was a trustee before him and in 1882 he offered the College $75,000 for a music hall. A member of the faculty with a conscience of abnormal development questioned whether it was ethical to accept such a donation from a man whose money "had been squeezed out of the girls." However the College took the gift and built what is now known on the campus as Warner Hall...
Deepest gold mine in the world is the Robinson Deep in South Africa's Witwatersrand, whence comes more than half of present world gold production. The Robinson Deep has sunk an inclined 3-mile shaft to a vertical depth of 8,380 ft. At that depth miners sweat, stagger and topple in a temperature of 104°, a humidity of nearly 100. Working efficiency is less than 30%. With gold prices soaring and money to spend, the company asked Willis Haviland Carrier, Newark engineer, to plan the world's biggest air-conditioning plant. Last week, with plans drawn...
Auburn was the gold mine which supplied young Errett Lobban Cord & friends with the fortune which, between speculative excitements, they have invested in airlines, shipbuilding, taxicabs. Entering the company when it was flat on its back in 1924, Motorman Cord lofted sales from $8,000,000 in 1925 to a peak of $37,000,000 in 1929. Early in the Depression he realized that there was still a market for a smart, fast model priced under $1,000 among people who had lost their shirts but did not want their neighbors to know it. Auburn became a Depression sensation, making...