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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rich was the lode that drilling was done only where ore could be reached readily. One of the best deposits was found by accident when a new-type drill was tested at the Burnt Creek camp site. The drill bit down into the earth, struck rich ore at two feet, was still in it when drilling was stopped at 367 feet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: THE DOMINION: Northern Mesabi | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

...Quiet Game. Two years afterwards Nadelman married a rich woman, settled down in a Riverdale, N.Y. mansion. When friends came to call and asked "what he was doing," he proudly showed them his raspberries. Neighbors knew him as a man who liked a quiet game of bridge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Monumental Dolls | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

...maybe Minneapolis), he was indicted as an abortionist in St. Paul in 1922. The case was dismissed because of "the condition and attitude of the complainant." In 1925, Faiman told a Chicago court that he had supplied typhoid germs to William Darling Shepherd for the purpose of murdering his rich young ward, Billy McClintock. Faiman got off by turning state's evidence. A witness testified during the trial that Faiman had operated an unsavory St. Louis "massage-parlor" and was "doctor in chief" of a similar resort in Detroit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Case of the Violet Paste | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

Today there are still Nazis in Spain, but only rich ones. The rank and file were sacrificed to the Allies at the end of the war. There are some excellent restaurants and plenty of food for these big shot Nazis and their Spanish counterparts. But the people are ill-housed and poorly fed. The disease rate is fantastic and those that aren't diseased are squirming with fear...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Friend Franco | 10/16/1948 | See Source »

...maker. He has the exciting dancing of Kathryn Lee. He has the songs of Jimmy McHugh which, if they remind you that you have heard them somewhere before, still prompt you to want to hear them again. That is saying a lot for modern show tunes. He has Irene Rich for the female lead. He has a million lovely girls and two million sponge rubber falsies. Most important, he has two weeks in Boston. In this time he can throw away most of the story, cut the love interest, further undress his girlies, put the spectacles back on Bobby Clark...

Author: By Burton S. Glinn., | Title: The Playgoer | 10/16/1948 | See Source »

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