Word: spuds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like every prospector who has struck it rich, Ulric Joseph ("Spud") Arsenault was out to have the time of his life. Last week in Toronto he picked up $100,000 as part payment for his Yellowknife gold strike (TIME, May 13), and lit out for New York's White...
...Canadian customs refused to let Spud take more than $50 out of the country. Nevertheless, he checked in at Manhattan's Park Central, toured hot spots (see cut) in search of a wife. He knew what he wanted: "She must not be too hefty, must be a genuine homemaker...
...after a couple of days of it, Spud had had enough. He didn't like the nightclubs nor the food, grumbled: "Ulcers- that's what I'd get, here." And he hadn't found a wife. Spud headed back to Yellowknife and "some nice, clean...
...slow-speaking, nail-hard adventurer was walking around the town of Yellowknife last week in a bright golden haze. Ulric Joseph ("Spud") Arsenault, a trapper and prospector in the Northwest Territories, had staked out 20 likely-looking claims about 50 miles north of Yellowknife last year. Last week Beaulieu Yellowknife Mines, Ltd. agreed to pay him $100,000 cash for his properties, give him 250,000 shares of stock (worth 50? a share to start) in the new company organized to develop them...
...opening day, the big-name veterans looked as good as they had been touted. The Indians' Bobby Feller and the Yankees' Spud Chandler pitched shutouts. The Tigers' Hank Greenberg and the Yankees' Joe Di Maggio hit home runs. The Red Sox's Ted Williams smacked the longest ball (440 ft.) seen in Washington's Griffith Stadium in 15 years...