Word: montes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wrong Answer. In Great Falls, Mont., Earl Phipps, 58, panhandled money by showing prospects a sign reading: "I am deaf and dumb," landed in jail after a policeman asked him where the sign was, and he replied: "Right here in my pocket...
...Scobey, Mont...
Died. William Harold Hoover, 63, president (since 1949) of Anaconda Copper Mining Co., the world's largest copper producer, who last year launched Anaconda into the aluminum business, making it fourth in the field (after Alcoa, Reynolds, Kaiser); of cancer; in Butte, Mont...
...steamboat days, when a big one like the Sprague could push as many as 60 barges loaded down with 54,000 tons of coal. He becomes nostalgic recalling that stern-wheelers in the '70s made regular trips on the highways of water between Pittsburgh and Fort Benton, Mont. But he knows that diesels are here to stay, and doesn't let his nostalgia get teary-eyed. Nor does he equate the ' Monongahela and the Coal Queen with romance. But when a stranger looked at the Queen and asked, "Ain't it a miracle what some fools...
...then, lease prices have risen from 10? an acre to as high as $235. Such famed wildcatters as Texas' H. L. Hunt, often called "the richest oilman in the world," and Hugh Roy Cullen hustled in to get in on the play. Centers of the drilling, e.g., Glendive, Mont, and Williston, N.D., burst at the seams...