Word: silver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...William Schmidt staked 24 gold, silver and copper claims in a remote part of California's Black Mountain. The ore veins looked rich, but miles of costly road would have been needed to get the ore around the mountain to a shipping point. Lacking capital, William Schmidt decided to tunnel through the mountain - alone. For 32 years he worked on his bore, using only blasting powder, hand drills and picks. Like the builders of the great Colorado River Aqueduct, he had to learn as he went along. At the start, he did not even know how to temper...
President Arthur R. Clapham of Johnson & Johnson ("Red Cross" medical supplies) last week announced a $250,000 Christmas bonus (5% of 1938 salaries) for 2,700 of the company's employes. Other bonuses declared last week: $100,000 (one week's wages) for International Silver Co.'s 4,350 employes; $40,000 for Eastern Air Lines' 800 employes earning under $300 a month...
Every year at least 250 trusting students in Chem B dig their last dime from their wallets and put it through a myriad of chemical tortures. The final product is 250 little silver balls, worth 3 cents apiece being all the silver there ever was in the dimes. Then all this rich metal is handed docilely ever to the authorities, who realize about $300 every century on the deal...
Cambridge ought to have silver streets "with mother of pearl borders and platinum edgestones, inlaid with opals and lapis lazuli" declared a weekend bulletin of the Cambridge Taxpayers Association which decried the amount of money borrowed by this city for road construction...
Between conferences, calls and bouts with his two dictaphones, he gets an hour's ride or walk, bolts tea and sandwiches from a solid silver plate, naps...