Word: steck
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before long a second report reached the President from Captain Sagel who by this time had arrived at the mine with the Governor of Chiriqui Province. He sent word that Joanes van Steck, one of the three prospectors-the other two were missing-had volunteered to lead the way into the gold-choked tunnel, where he had then inexplicably shot himself. There was nothing to worry about, said Sagel, because a Czechoslovak worker in the tunnel testified that he had seen the gold. The next report to reach the President, from Chief Pino, was slightly less encouraging. Arrin Thorpe...
Three grizzled prospectors - Arrin Thorpe of the U. S., Joanes Van Steck, a Frenchman, and Antonio Hill, a German- weary from months of prospecting, stopped their pack burros near the Piedra Candela settlement in the shadow of the Santa Maria Mountains on the Costa Rican-Panamanian border one day last week, prepared to lay out claims. Driving the first claim-stake, the ground beneath their feet gave way and the trio dropped into an abandoned mine shaft. Before their startled eyes stood 35 gold ingots, each weighing 50 lb., neatly stacked against the wall. Nearby lay equipment for panning gold...
...Richardson '35, M. P. Richmond '34, W. P. Rockwell '35, Sumner Rodman '36, L. Rosen, H. O. Sebring, Jr. 3L, Ellery Sedgwick, Jr. '32, H. B. Shepard, 2d '34, W. S. Sims, Jr. '33, A. T. Smith, Jr. 2L, Ben Sommers '34, W. Spencer '34, Emil Steck, W. H. Stevsky '36, I. M. Street '35, Christopher Sykes '33, Joseph Sykes, Horace Taylor 3G, George Walker '33, J. L. Ware '34, C. P. Webber '33, J. H. Weekes '34, David Weld '34, O. Z. Whitehead '34, J. B. Williamson, S. Wright '33, E. A. Wye '34, R. D. Young...
...investor in the new company was Aeolian-Weber Piano & Pianola Co. which controls companies making pianos (Weber, George Steck). Last week plans were almost completed for a merger of Aeolian-Weber's subsidiary, Aeolian Co.. and American Piano Corp. under the name Aeolian American Corp. Both companies and the 20-odd concerns they control will remain intact...
Iowa. Democratic headquarters abandoned all hope of pulling through to reelection Senator Daniel Frederic Steck...