Word: nugget
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will certainly not interest those who regard the United States as a some what impoverished gold mine out of which they can still scrape a nugget or two for themselves, It will interest only those who think of the United States as their land - a land they know and love - a land that became rich through the industry, thrift, and enterprise of its people, and will never regain its prosperity in any other...
...Administrator Newton is busily getting all the facts, wisely keeping mum. Favorite Newton nugget: "There's nothing like a fact. When I was trying criminal cases, I found that a good, old-fashioned fact could stop even Max Steuer (famed Manhattan trial lawyer...
Youngster Nugget sneaks away from his horrible home in Kansas and hitch-hikes in search of his half brother, Gaye Oldaker. He finds Gaye running the roulette wheel in a New Mexico "sporting house" filled with painted ladies whose names are strange to him-Midnight Rose, Drowsy Dolly, Fleabitten Daisy, Rowdy Kate. Gaye Oldaker's lady friend, Tacey Cromwell, runs the establishment. But after Nugget turns up Tacey moves to the copper town of Bisbee, Ariz., where she hopes to leave her "sporting" life behind her, to marry Gaye and make a home for Nugget. The family circle...
...Gaye Oldaker cannot bring himself to marry ex-Madam Tacey. When the respectable ladies of Bisbee discover Tacey's history and unmarried status, they furiously confiscate Nugget and Seely, settle them in respectable Bisbee homes. Lover Gaye is too weak to fight for his "family," too ambitious not to rise to the top in Arizona politics once he has discarded the unpopular Tacey. The ironic result of the family split is that young Seely suffers torments in the strange hands of "nice" people, grows up to be virtually a high-class prostitute. At the end of the book Nugget...
...little encouragement, a little help. Englebright's home-town paper, the Nevada City (pop. 2,445) Nugget, gave him editorial support. The truck drivers and yard men at his Lone Pine Lumber & Supply Co. offered to spend their evenings in his office pecking out campaign letters. They did not worry about the fact that they might be hurting their own pocketbooks: last year half of the company's $400,000 gross (and Henderson's $27,000 profits) came from Government orders. He would lose as a Congressman...