Word: silver
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...public recreational use (the Federal Government owns 72% of all the land in Utah and 52% of Wyoming). Some 70% of the farming in the Upper Basin depends on irrigation but only a small portion of the land is irrigated. The Upper Basin is a treasure house: lead, gold, silver, zinc, coal, oil-and now, uranium. But the water is not to be had for full development of these resources...
...months, a flood of complaints about misleading radio-TV commercials poured into the offices of the New York Better Business Bureau and Kings County (Brooklyn) District Attorney Edward S. Silver. To nail the offenders, Silver had policemen and policewomen pose as residents of apartments that were wired with tape recorders. The couples would answer the commercials, record the salesman's spiel when he called on them...
Being a baroness was never enough to satisfy ambitious Daisy von Freyberg. At the age of 18 she took on a stage name, Daisy D'Ora, and became one of the more curvesome ornaments of Germany's silver screen. The international film Almanac of 1931 listed her as a "young lover" type, and that same year blonde Baroness Daisy earned still another title: Miss Germany. Sought after by the great and powerful in the twin worlds of Art and Fashion, Daisy in 1932 gave up her own career to marry a wealthy and successful young diplomat named Oskar...
...dropped from sight 400 years after his death. Famed in his day as one of Italy's greatest masters of mathematical perspective, Piero trademarked his work with his magnificent handling of translucent atmosphere, and his ability to use form and light to give flesh tones an almost silver sheen. It took the followers of Cézanne, with their taste for color and geometric form, to start Piero's comeback; other modernists, in rebellion against the 19th century love of the elaborate and ornate, were impressed by the simplicity and truthfulness of Piero's peasant types...
...invited to look over the list of our subscribers in their own home towns. Usually they are challenged to name a post office anywhere in the U.S. which does not have at least one TIME subscriber. If by chance they can do so, they get a prize of a silver dollar...