Word: silver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Planned since last spring has been a Government silver depository, similar to the gold fortress-vault at Fort Knox, Ky., to be constructed on the grounds of the U. S. Military Academy at West Point. Last week the President signed a bill fixing the site of the silver fortress not at West Point but at Camp Dix, N. J., where as many as 63,848 soldiers were quartered simultaneously during the War and where 1,034 are still encamped on a 7,843-acre military reservation. Reasons for the change, recommended by the House Military Affairs Committee: Camp...
...Custer County. Idaho, the ghost town of White Knob, once "the premier lead, copper, and silver camp of the West" was offered for sale to make up delinquent taxes. In 1915 it was sold for $440,000. In 1928 it was sold for $150,000. Last week there were no bidders for White Knob...
...Restaurant Accountant James E. McNamara observed that '"in the first place it is easier to waste a liquid than a solid; in the second place there is much more temptation to employes in a bottle than in a box. . . ." Sales Manager A. A. Schipke of International Silver Co. besought the stewards to screen their garbage cans and buy genuine silver. "In Massachusetts," said he, "we recovered two tons of silver from restaurant garbage in one month, proving that losses which you blame on the poor public are usually due to careless help...
...crowd, somewhat thinned by the inescapable monotony of the spectacle provided by small boys coasting down a hill, saw the final heat. Robert Ballard, 12, of White Plains, N. Y., got the checkered flag as he rolled across the finish line first to win the U. S. championship, a silver trophy, a diamond-set gold medal and a four-year scholarship to any State university he might select. He promptly announced that he would go to the University of Minnesota. Runner-up Kenneth Richardson, 12, of Detroit and John Sigmans, 12, of Bethlehem, Pa., who came in third, each...
...account comes with his description of how the Guggenheims got into the mining business. Preferring to loan money personally rather than trust the banks. Meyer put up $25,000 with a speculating Quaker named Charles Graham, who for $4,000 had bought a water-filled, 70-ft. silver mine in Leadville, Colo. It turned out to be the richest mine in the Rockies. The only Jew in turbulent Leadville, Meyer, now past 50, decided to build his own smelter because he was annoyed with smelter fees. Said a superintendent of the first Guggenheim smelter: "Wherever I turned there...