Word: silver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...your Feb. 26 issue, in the article about Tom Dewey's tour, it stated that in Helena, Mont., the people "eke out a meagre existence from gold, copper & silver mines, sheep & cattle ranches, the production of wheat, corn, oats, potatoes...
...certain Dalmatoff, formerly an old Russian colonel. As commanding officer, Budenny managed to get badly bruised up by Whites in Northern Kuban as late as early 1920, then repeated the same maneuver in Galicia in summer of 1920, and eventually distinguished himself by losing his transport and sterling silver wind ensemble of his outfit to the already defeated and . . . pitiful troops of Wrangel...
Winners of the tournament, which will be held in the Winthrop House dining hall at 7:45 o'clock Monday and Tuesday, will go to New York over the weekend of April 26 to compete with representative pairs from twelve other colleges for a sterling silver cup provided by the Organizing Committee, which is composed of New York alumni of the colleges participating...
...variance, Artist Segall's work, like himself, is meticulous, disciplined, treats trouble tranquilly. His paintings have volume, seem big even when they are small. Using low-keyed earth colors-burnt sienna, ochre, silver grey, black, dull red, dark green-and firm, concise lines, he strikes a sober balance between emotion and restraint. Savage as an air raid but far stiller is his Pogrom, a huddled heap of corpses lying quietly on a Torah scroll...
While Planeman Piper was attending the Los Angeles aircraft show on March 16, 1937, his plant burned to the ground. Only 15 planes, some wings, fuselages, spare parts were saved. When he got back, he found his mechanics out on the field putting together a plane with one silver wing, one red one. Pocketing his $75,000 loss (virtually no insurance), he bought a fireproof brick building from Susquehanna Silk Mills in Lock Haven, Pa., 80 miles away, renamed his company Piper Aircraft Corp., and started over. His loss for the year was only $39,555, and in 1938 profits...