Word: old
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Back to Old Virginia. At 45, he became rector (a kind of chairman of the board) of the University of Virginia. He anticipated Harry Truman's Point Four program by forming the Liberia Co. to help develop the natural resources of the Negro republic. He traveled, conducted foreign-policy seminars at his estate in Virginia, wrote a book on Yalta (see BOOKS). Last spring, Big Ed's doctor ordered him to slow down...
...airborne missionary brought the feverish tale to Fairbanks: a trapper named Clifton Carrol had found gold nuggets "as big as peas" sticking to a fish wheel he was running in the Yukon River, 20 miles below Fort Yukon. The news licked through the town's old log cabins like fire, blazed in its neon-trimmed bars, spread to the big Army hangars at Ladd Field. It was carried across the Territory by radio. The Fishwheel Stampede...
...first day, 50 the next, 60 the next. At times they were stacked five deep over sandbars waiting for landings. Tents, fires, laboring men spread along eight miles of riverbank. A trapper's wife opened a coffee shop in a tent. A clothing store sprang up in another. Old prospectors, panning methodically after thawing the frozen ground with fires, found traces of gold dust. But they found nothing else...
...Fifty to 75 leathery old prospectors refused to believe the geologists, the calamity howlers or anyone else. This week they were building log foundations for their tents, ordering prospectors' boilers (for thawing ground) and preparing to drive shafts to bedrock, if necessary, before surrendering...
...items of Harry Truman's program before saying that he could do them better. Republican Senator Irving Ives had been elected as a liberal, especially sympathetic to much of the New Deal's labor legislation. But, making his first plunge into county-level politics, conservative, 61-year-old Senator John Foster Dulles could not be accused of "me-tooing...