Word: silver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since 1867 Alaska has produced roughly $1,000,000,000 in gold, silver and copper. Its salmon shipments have been worth as much as $42,000,000 in a single year. . Alaska cost precisely $7,200,000* ($12 per sq. mi.) when the U. S. Government bought it from Russia, since the Muscovites considered it not much better than a huge, bear-infested snowdrift. Last week, this colossal real-estate coup-engineered by Abraham Lincoln's Secretary of State William Henry Seward-was somewhat inappropriately commemorated in Washington, D. C. Payment of the $7,200,000 was made...
...doves wrapped in clotted swiss, his head in a sitz bath for a last shampoo. Everywhere, scattered about the place, were grim reminders of his genteel background: a cold bottle of Tavel on the lowboy, a spray of pinks in a cut-glass bowl, an album held with a silver clasp, and his social-security card copied in needlepoint and framed on the wall. We begged the privilege of an interview. . . . Mr. Tilley let the comb drop into his lap, and turned half around, his magnincent profile etched in light from the window...
Chairman Brewster wants to name a Queen of the Ball whom he can also use as a model for Townsend Silver advertising, thus assuring a million dollar account for his insolvent agency. When stuffy young Alan Townsend (Richard Arlen) tells him that he wants a socialite for both jobs, the indefatigable Brewster finds one in the person of Townsend's fiancee Cynthia (Gail Patrick). But meantime Brewster's professional model fiancée Paula Sewell (Ida Lupino) has pursued young Townsend to Miami, convinced him, apparently by drinking tea with an arched ringer, that she is an eligible...
...length up to 46 cars casualties were down to 5,996. The Duluth, Missabe & Northern R.R. in Minnesota operated almost 7,000 trains of more than 70 cars over a period in which not a man was killed, a performance for which the D. M. & N. received the Harriman Silver Medal Award...
...down on the Atlantic Ocean, off Newport, R. I. Nearly out of sight of most of this huge de luxe flotilla, which was policed far off the course, Harold Stirling Vanderbilt's Ranger was racing Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith's Endeavour for the hideous 86-year-old silver pitcher which is the most prized sporting trophy in the world...