Word: silvertone
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...East Kootenays, Slocan and other silver-bearing areas of British Columbia, some 500 old sourdoughs and hopeful young war veterans chipped away last week in search of new lodes. Virgin claims were staked out, old claims rechecked. In Silverton, Sandon and many another mine town, shutters came down and hopes went...
...fabulous Telluride-Ouray-Silverton mining district of Colorado's San Juan mountains, the world's fastest tunnel builder was hard a-boring once more last week. The man: 6-ft.-8-in. John Raymond Austin, 56, whose straggly grey hair and long, lined face give him the melancholy look of a bloodhound. The job: adding 6,200 ft. to an abandoned tunnel under La Plata divide, to make it possible to get zinc, lead and copper out of some lately unworked gold & silver mines...
...Silverton, Ore., ladies of the local country club played a strip golf tournament, one garment for each hole. Unlucky Mrs. Ralph Bilyeu left the course first, reduced to a shoe and a piece of lingerie. Mrs. J. Werle who stepped to the first tee wearing six petticoats, pantaloons and a hoop skirt, won with the loss of only three petticoats...
...Post sent young Brian Untiedt to distract Herbert Hoover in his most crucial White House days. When Silverton, a mountain hamlet near Denver, was cut off from the world by a hundred feet of snow, Bonfils sent an airplane which circled slowly above the outcasts, and then dropped a bag containing five hundred copies of the Denver Post. The domination of the Post, however, was soon challenged by the Scripps-Howard Rocky Mountain News, and the most spectacular of advertising wars began. The Post offered a gallon of gasoline, at twenty two cents, for each want ad, the News offered...
...times Denver airmen flew at Monarch Pass in the continental divide. Six times they were flung back by a raging blizzard. On the seventh try, Lieut. Dan Kearns and Sergeant Clyde Plank of the Colorado National Guard, soared over. They flew to Silverton, Col., 200 miles from Denver, over crags and chasms no one had ever before crossed. All of Silverton, for four weeks completely snowbound, floundered over to the town baseball lot to see mail, food, newspapers and diphtheria antitoxin drop from the skies into a snowbank. The factory siren kept up a steady shriek. Oldest inhabitants ants shifted...