Word: stillness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last fall the Fairbanks Exploration Co., mining for gold in Alaska, washed the body out of its deep-freeze burial place; the parts that were found, still frozen, had changed little through the centuries. As the skin and flesh began to thaw, workmen embalmed them with formaldehyde, glycerin and alum. They were flown to Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History and quickly refrozen...
...Dirt Farther Down. For any businessmen not acutely aware that many prices were still too high, the Federal Reserve Board had some enlightenment. In a survey made early this year, FRB reported that consumers had almost as much cash as the year before, but were less ready to spend it unless prices went down. Consumers were in the market for up to 5,000,000 new cars, about 1,500,000 television sets and a million new homes. There was "strong underlying consumer demand," said FRB, "if goods were available at prices and qualities considered attractive." So far the price...
...days after the Erfdeel test, the South African Press Association flashed still more exciting news. A test bore on another farm near Erfdeel had reportedly assayed out even richer. At this, Jo'burg's frantic speculators ran up the Free State Gold Areas shares to a high of $11.28-and Promoter Milne's paper profits were estimated at somewhere between $8 million and $20 million...
...formed a new outfit called the Spreckels Companies, with the aid of Virgil Dardi, the shrewd boss of Blair Holdings Corp., a California investment firm, and Claus's grandchildren, sisters Alma Spreckels Rosekrans and Dorothy C. Spreckels. The sisters are the only members of the Spreckels clan still interested in the family business...
Goal? What was the ultimate goal of Allied decartelization policy? That was still up in the air. Britain wanted to nationalize the deconcentrated plants, while the U.S. wanted them to form a new basis for free competitive enterprise to strengthen the German economy. France was more interested in keeping Germany weak...