Word: mininger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Westerns are like music of the Classical period. They are always composed according to a strict formula. There are only so many situations that a Western producer can use: cowboys & Indians, gold-mining, and so on. Within those restrictions producers can do anything they wish, and they do some marvelous...
In the windswept Bolivian tin-mining center of Oruro, garishly garbed Indian miners paraded through the streets last week behind some 60 mules and oxen laden with silverware and assorted household objects. Arriving at the Church of the Virgin of the Cave, patroness of Oruro tin diggers, the marchers symbolically...
Last week, Finance Minister Douglas Abbott, possibly the only finance chief of any major nation with such a pleasant embarrassment to explain, replied to his critics. Abbott took the view that the surplus was a fortunate miscalculation. Besides holding down inflation, he said, the surplus provided the government with funds...
The First Eleven. Once chinchilla was a prized fur, adorning the robes of kings and potentates. Annual world sales were as high as 78,000 skins in 1900. But gradually the mountains of South America, where the chinchilla lived, were swept almost clean, and the fur fell from fash ion...
"A Great Rogue." For some years he struggled to make both ends meet, practicing with small profit first in Welsh mining towns, then in a shabby London street. But almost overnight, his luck turned. He was called in, purely for emergency reasons, to attend a wealthy patient, and in her...