Word: mininger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Currently, railroads make up only five percent of the common stock total--one-fourth of which is in public utilities, one-fifth in oil, and one-tenth in insurance. Railroads are in fourth place behind these the leaders, and then come chemical, bank, retail trade, paper, electrical equipment, food and...
Instead, Wilson energetically went after more claims. He was a college graduate with a good knowledge of mining laws. He bluffed some prospectors out of their claims, simply jumped the claims of others who refused to deal with him.
Last week, nonetheless, the President decided against protectionism in the case of scissors and shears. The Tariff Commission had found that imports from Germany and Italy constituted "a definite threat of serious injury," and recommended doubling the present 42% tariff. President Eisenhower canceled the increase on the ground that no...
The plot is best summed up by a recurrent phrase in the picture: "The country's alive with Indians." Through this red-man-infested landscape moves Rory Calhoun (delicately described as Marilyn's fiancé), carrying a mining claim won in a card game, and astride a horse...
The way they did it, according to the indictment, was in the best tradition of Canada's fly-by-night promoters (TIME, Oct. 15, 1951). The two Canadian firms dealt in such stocks as "Stampede Petroleums Ltd.," "Oakridge Mining Corp." and "Candoo Metals & Oils Ltd." Their persuasive salesmen, charged...