Word: skull
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...excitement all began last Saturday, when news came from England that the skull of the famous "Piltdown Man," accepted for 40 years by authropologists and paleontologists as a relic of the earliest man, is actually a "most elaborate and carefully prepared hoax...
Oakley explained that the basis of calling the skull a fraud was the discovery that the ape-like "Piltdown" jaw is actually that of a modern ape which had been treated with a chemical to make it appear a "fossil." When found in a Piltdown, England, gravel pit in 1911, the shape of the jaw led scientists to call it at least 100,000 and possibly 600,000 years old. The cranium itself is a genuine fossil, but the scientists now say it is only 50,000 years...
Below Par. In Yakima, Wash., Mrs. Ivon Cooper, 32, showed up at the local hospital, said she "hadn't been feeling well" since she fell off her roof three days before, was put to bed when doctors found she had a fractured skull, a broken ankle, two broken fingers...
When he returned, an avalanche had covered up the wheelbarrow and he was never able to find the vein again. Who found it? Moore, of course. And he also found the wheelbarrow, the dead partner's skull and the well-rusted murder weapon, a Winchester rifle. To prove his point, he displayed a battered old wheelbarrow in a Moscow general store in 1936. Newspapermen sent stories and pictures of the wheelbarrow all over the country, and then Moore mailed out a blizzard of clippings...
...this built up his story so well that some 1,200 investors, replying to his golden-phrased letters, bought stock in the mine. To keep interest at a high level, Moore sent to stockholders such telegrams as "Found more of skeleton. Skull has bullet hole through temple. Everything going good...