Word: silver
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...husband, one Dr. Bryant. After his death she kept a boarding house in the mining camps. To her table came John W. Mackay, Irish immigrant miner. They were married. The famed Comstock Lode, in the opening of which he was an entrepreneur, yielded $300,000,000 in gold and silver within six years. Buttressed with wealth, Mrs. Mackay assailed San Francisco society, made but slight impress. She traveled to France. There her dark beauty, wit, enviable taste and prodigious fortune made her a social enchantress. Speaking flawless French, acquired from her mother, she was received in the almost impenetrable salons...
...late years, inspiration has given way to rules. Company officers, forming the Committee on Nomenclature, methodically assign prefixes, thus: Mt., or Mountain for observation cars containing sections; Saint or Mac for cars with twelve sections, one drawing room; Silver for the California Limited of the Santa Fe; Great for the Great Northern Oriental Limited; Sunset for Sunset Limited of the Southern Pacific...
...Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp. of Akron, Ohio, a subsidiary of potent Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., are better than those of a half dozen competitors.* It seemed almost certain that Goodyear would be awarded the contracts for the two airships, that work would begin this autumn and the first new giant silver cigar would take the air in 1930. Goodyear quoted $7,950,000 as the price of the two airships, or $5,450,000 as the price of one. The Navy board gave this design a figure of merit...
...Montana did its roaring while the East was enjoying the elegant '80s. In 1870, only 241 men and women were staking their fortunes on the 6-foot pit in the earth which two prospectors had discovered six years earlier. They were tapping surface veins of gold and silver. They did not suspect that the real wealth of Montana's barren hills lay deeper in the earth...
Died. Henry Clay ("Dick") Silver, 54, reporter, broker, political writer, who stood beside President McKinley when he was assassinated; of pneumonia; in Manhattan...