Word: silks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grubstake to two German prospectors who struck silver. He bought the Matchless silver mine in Leadville, Colo, for $117,000, made $10,000,000 out of it. Coarse and lusty, he spent his money with equal pleasure on a million-dollar opera house in Denver, a $1,000 silk & lace nightshirt with gold buttons. Dazzled by his wealth was the belle of the mining camps. "Baby Doe," daughter of an Oshkosh, Wis. tailor. When the great Tabor began eyeing her blonde loveliness, she quickly cast off her impecunious young husband. Tabor married her, 30 years his junior, as soon...
...joint-stock venture called the Society for Establishing Useful Manufactures.* There the Colt family fashioned their first firearms. There in later days were built some of the first U. S. locomotives. There Inventor John Holland built a submarine in 1875. There today are the biggest silk mills in the U. S. And around those mills on the unsavory banks of the Passaic have been waged some of the bitterest and bloodiest strikes in U. S. history...
Last week the "Silk City of America" made a rare move in municipal finance by publishing as paid advertising in local and Manhattan newspapers an annual report. Occasionally a reform municipal administration draws up balance sheets or income & outgo statements which most editors regard as sufficiently newsworthy to print free. But a formal advertisement was something new to Wall Street. Mayor John V. Hinchliffe touched on Paterson history, Paterson population (141,000), Paterson business advantages, forgotten Paterson products (overalls, wall paper, airplanes, jute, art glass). During 1934 the city was run on a strictly cash basis, reporting a surplus...
...from $1.18 for July delivery to $1.25 for June delivery. Gasoline sold at from 5.78? to 5.98? per gal. Trading in oil and gasoline brought the number of commodities bought & sold on U. S. Exchanges to 33. The others: wheat, corn, rye. oats, sugar, coffee, cotton, silk, rubber, hides, butter, eggs, copper, zinc, tin, lead, rice, barley, lard, ribs, provisions, potatoes, cotton seed, flour, hay, flaxseed, millseeds, cocoa, wool, tops, grain sorghums, sugar bags...
...Governor Herbert Henry Lehman invited the newsmen's wives to a circus party at the Executive Mansion. The guests came in girls' dresses, hair ribbons. Pretty Mrs. Lehman twisted her hair in two braids, wore a frilly white dress with red and blue polka dots, silk stockings, socks. Most of the newsmen's wives were brazenly barelegged. At a table decorated with clowns, acrobats, elephants and five sawdust rings, they all tied bibs about their necks, gobbled their dinner, whooped when ice cream cones appeared. After dinner they sucked thumbs while a private wire brought them bits...