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Place of Spirits. This rain-goddess is a familiar figure in Rhodesia: a well-shaped, fearless Matabele woman of 55 with a jolly face, a searching gaze, a European taste in clothes, and (according to her people) a proved ability to make rain. A white prospector who believed the old legends of buried treasure persuaded her to lead him to the secret burial cave of Lobengula...
...Baby. Two years ago Mouat was a wooded mountainside, green with Douglas fir and jack pine. Its population consisted of jut-jawed old Prospector Bill Mouat and his wife. Then the U.S., needing chrome sorely, found it at Mouat. Japs had choked off the chrome supply from the Philippines; the Nazis blocked the Mediterranean route from Turkey, Nazi subs imperiled shipping from South Africa. The Government moved in with old Prospector Bill...
Australia's economy is out of joint, the barrel of Australia's limited manpower has been scraped to the bottom, every town and city is suffering from overcrowding, food shortages, lack of personnel in ordinary services. Domestic servants are as scarce as the platypus. It is a prospector's job to buy a package of cigarets or a glass of beer. The people's clothes are getting shabby. It is hard to buy simple things like matches and writing paper, impossible to buy golf or tennis balls, almost impossible to buy a razor blade...
...Canada, broke. A conductor kicked him off a train at a junction called Swastika, in northern Ontario. A down-&-out Chinese was sitting there, and when Oakes said he was a gold prospector the Chinese said that if gold was all he wanted there was plenty of it all around the place. Oakes found it, staked out Lake Shore Mine. It became the second-richest gold mine in the world: by 1927 it had paid Oakes $28 million in dividends, and thereafter it yielded him approximately $3 million a year...
...picking the purposes and setting the conditions of investment and unless U.S. politicians become skilled in understanding and explaining the tariff policies that must accompany foreign investment. Yet, beckoning on to such an effort, the opportunities for productive investment spot the world map like huge rough jewels. The prospector need only pick up a few samples to realize their value as cut and polished stones...