Word: southwester
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...over the nation there was now little hesitancy-from sellers & buyers alike-in flouting the laws. In the South and Southwest it was lumber-running-on the highways outside San Antonio and Austin, Tex., there is lively bidding each night at $1,200 for big truckloads of lumber worth $720 at ceiling prices. In almost every rural area, war veterans with priorities bought new tractors, sold them back of'the barn at $500 profit. In Florida, cement building blocks (ceiling 17?) had a current black-market price...
...unprecedented boom grew beanstalk-fast from a 3,022-ft.-deep borehole in a cornfield near the dusty little village of Odendaalsrus, southwest of Johannesburg on the Free State's sandy veld. A Canadian engineer, G. W. Hicks, employed by Diamond Tycoon Sir Ernest Oppenheimer's Western Holdings and Blinkpoort companies, brought up the diamond-drilled ore core. It assayed 62.6 oz. of gold to the ton-33 times as rich as the phenomenally prosperous Blyvooruitzicht mine, 120 times better than Canada's best...
...iron curtain across Europe parted a little last week. Escorted by Russian officers, seven U.S. newspapermen, among them TIME Correspondent Jack Fleischer, toured rich, lightly war-damaged Thuringia, southwest of Berlin, in the Russian zone. When they returned to Berlin, Fleischer reported this conviction-that the goal of Russian occupation policies is a socialized Germany...
Frank Kovacs seemed surprised at the commotion his statement raised in the nation's sport pages. Said he: "I thought everybody knew. The Pacific Southwest championships at Los Angeles put up the most . . . they paid Riggs $800 one time. It all depends on what country you're in. We do it with cash. It's wide open in Australia. They pay them off with checks there . . . if you're a good tennis player in Australia . . . they want to keep you for the Davis Cup team...
...combined to make pub-crawling more cultural. In 1944 they commissioned some ?5,000 worth of drawings and watercolors. Last week an installment of the traveling Pub Art Show opened at The Bull in East Shean, in old times the first coaching station out of London to the southwest. Beamed brilliant, bibulous old portraitist Augustus John: "Artists have always supported the brewery industry. Now we are getting a little reciprocity...