Word: silver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...turned to Bolivia, began to apply modern techniques to abandoned, worked-over tin mines. Since then he has branched into copper, zinc, silver, tungsten-a variety of mine holdings which eventually exceeded those of Simón Patiño. A few Bolivians welcomed Hochschild and his up-&-coming ways; others cursed him for stimulating the specialized mining economy which caused Bolivia's underpaid, tuberculous, ill-fed masses untold misery, and prevented diversification which might have made a healthier economy...
Bronze Red Cross donor pins are given to persons making a gift of blood, after which a silver pin is awarded for three donations. Appointments can be obtained by calling at 485 Boylston Street from 8:45 o'clock to 8:30 o'clock on weekdays and from 8:45 o'clock to 8:30 o'clock on Saturdays...
...years Fitzgerald acted only part-time, working part-time, too, as a "nominal" student at the Abbey. Gradually he got more important roles and a deeper interest in them; at last he quit his civil service desk for good. His first full-time professional appearance was in The Silver Tassie, in 1929. His friend Sean O'Casey wrote it especially...
...White Camellia; Howard Victor Broenstrupp, alias the Duke of St. Saba, alias Count Cherep-Spiridovich, etc. Nine of the defendants were already interned or in jail. They arrived by police van. Among them: famed, shrewd Propagandist George Sylvester Viereck, good friend of ex-Kaiser Wilhelm II; the Silver Shirts' William Dudley Pelley; onetime Bundleader Gerhard Wilhelm Kunze...
Another bishop who dropped into Washington to witness the Episcopal consecration of Dr. Angus Dun was Dr. Sigurgeir Sigurdsson, Lutheran bishop of Iceland. Dr. Sigurdsson was on his way back to Reykjavik after representing Iceland's Government at the silver jubilee of the Icelandic National League in Winnipeg. He also had met as many as possible of the 12,000 Icelanders in the U.S. and assured Americans that U.S. troops are happy in Iceland. He concedes that the sudden influx of thousands of servicemen into Iceland created problems. But they were no worse than those of any U.S. small...