Word: mines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...difference in altitude between Wall Street and the Black Hills of South Dakota-5,300 ft.-is no greater than that between the ruck of stockmarket quotations and the price of stock in Homestake Mining Co., most eminent Black Hills business. Biggest and most consistently profitable gold mine in the U. S., Homestake rose during the Depression from. $65 per share in 1929 to a point where, at more than $300 per share in 1933, it was the highest-price active stock on the New York Stock Exchange. Since then it has continued upward to the rarefied levels...
...confused with The Night Is Young, A Night at the Opera, Two for Tonight, Every Night at Eight, Let's Live Tonight, Night Life of the Gods, It Happened One Night, After Tonight, Be Mine Tonight, Out All Night, Night After Night...
...Chorus (to the tune of The Old Oaken Bucket): The old family toothbrush, The old family toothbrush, The old family toothbrush That hangs in the sink. First it was father's, Then it was mother's, Then it was sister's; Now it is mine...
...mine is a fire...
...many a novelist can command. And they would further contend that the best murder stories can compete with novels on their own ground. Partisans might instance the tales of Foe, Wilkie Collins and Gaboriau, would certainly mention Dashiell Hammett, "Francis lies," Dorothy Sayers. While admitting that run-of-the-mine murder stories bear as little resemblance to reality as a crossword puzzle and are pieced together with as little regard for grammar and probability, they would point with pardonable pride to such a book as Dorothy Sayers' Gaudy Night. Gaudy Night is not such a gaudy title as might...