Word: rushes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since Sherritt Gordon Mines did not have enough planes to rush in prospectors and supplies, it decided to keep the discovery to itself until it had diamond-drilled and staked the area. Not until last month did Brown disclose the full extent of his find to the Manitoba Chamber of Mines. Lynn Lake, he said, seemed to be the richest nickel strike on the North American continent since Sudbury, Ont. (1880s) - and the only important one not controlled by International Nickel, which supplies the U.S. with most of its nickel...
...biggest investor in the Cia. Colombiana de Tabaco, the country's No. 2 enterprise, owns no more than 3% of the stock. When a new hotel or steel plant is launched, the stock issue is subscribed practically overnight. It is as though every Antioquian peso were motorized to rush into the breach at the first opportunity...
California (Paramount) is a big, energetic Technicolored western about the 1848 gold rush. It should cause no particular pain to anyone, except possibly historians. Ray Milland is the sullen, unshaven hero. Barbara Stanwyck the hussy-with-heart-of-gold, Barry Fitzgerald the lovable old grape-growing philosopher, and George Coulouris the fine, fascist-minded villain...
...Long Island Railroad put a serious restriction on the card-playing commuter. It ordered its employees to forbid card players to hold places for a foursome when other passengers had no seats. That just about meant the end of rush-hour bridge and pinochle...
...pell-mell downhill rush of thousands, it seems as if the whole city is trying to break its collective neck. Even the cops on skis spend more time carting off the fallen than keeping skiers in line...