Word: silver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when silver was discovered in Leadville, the barren ravines leading to California Gulch swarmed with feverish thousands. In the gambling halls and Sallie Purple's fancy parlors, the bonanza kings strutted and roistered. "Haw" Tabor brought in the rich Little Pittsburgh, then the $10 million Matchless. Silver was everywhere a man might throw his pick, and the picks were thrown everywhere. The picks were sold by Charles Boettcher who, in the end, found a slower but surer bonanza...
...Leadville, the silver boom slowed and then collapsed. "Haw" Tabor died destitute in a Denver hotel he had built. But Colorado and Boettcher prospered. Boettcher branched out into mines, land, railroads, cattle, banks. He gave generously of his millions, pinched pennies for himself. His son Claude† took over management of his enterprises, built a new fortune upon...
...From General Lucius Clay down, the Americans in Berlin are calm. A few American families fly their sets of silver and their Steinway pianos to Frankfurt in the U.S. zone, but there is not the shadow of a panic nor any flight of dependents, but an impressive community awareness of what it is all about. We have only 4,000 soldiers in Berlin, but their morale is topnotch, and many are spoiling for a fight. They are tired of feeling pushed around...
...every human head every minute, according to Millikan, but they cannot be felt. Elaborate special apparatus is needed to observe them. Some scientists work with stacks of Geiger tubes, which register each particle that passes through them. Others use special photographic plates, where certain particles leave microscopic tracks of silver in the sensitive emulsion. The best instrument, and the hardest to use, is the Wilson cloud chamber, where the particles make visible tracks of white condensed moisture...
Fury at Furnace Creek (20th Century-Fox) is a better-than-average western, and thus a considerably better-than-average movie. Victor Mature, a gunman employed by silver-mining Tycoon Albert Dekker, suspects his boss of framing his father (an Army officer court-martialed after an Indian massacre at an Arizona fort). It is fairly easy for Mature to run around incognito, since none of his law-abiding family would claim him. His ineffectual brother (Glenn Langan), hot on the same vengeful trail, is more of a headache; brother nearly bungles everything...