Word: wolfs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...what is probably the first authentic bone of Folsom Man, a mysterious race of hunters who lived 10,000 years ago. Shay went bone-hunting with Jerry Ainsworth, a student at Eastern New Mexico College. Near a small stream called Blackwater Draw, they found the skeleton of a "dire wolf," a husky, toothy, carnivorous beast that died out toward the end of the glacial period...
Dire wolves are respectable finds for any amateur digger, but among the bones of this one was something even choicer: a stone spearhead with oddly fluted sides. It proved that the dire wolf had been speared and possibly killed by a Folsom hunter. It also hinted that other Folsom remains might be found near by. In Pleistocene times Blackwater Draw must have been a sizable river, just the place for ancient hunters to use as a camp site...
...mail. Postmaster Shay kept digging systematically near Blackwater Draw. At last he found what looked like a human bone. He took it to Archaeologist Frank Hibben of the University of New Mexico, who identified it as a human rib. Since it came from the same stratum as the dire wolf that had tangled with a Folsom hunter. Dr. Hibben believes that it is a Folsom bone, the first ever found. He hopes that further digging will turn up the rest of the skeleton. Then science will get a real look at shadowy Folsom Man, who has been known thus...
...business by a series of complicated financial deals, last week wound up a new one. As part of his program to concentrate Avco on home-appliance manufacture, he sold control of his New York Shipbuilding Corp., third biggest in the U.S., for $2,000,000 cash. The buyer: Louis Wolf son, a 41-year-old Florida financier who could probably teach even a master like "V.E." a few tricks in turning a deal...
Golden Trolley. Three years ago, Wolf son's syndicate raised $2,100,000 to buy control (45.6%) of Washington's transportation system, found it a gold mine. The stock had been paying only 50? a year, but Wolfson's group has since paid out a total of $22.60 in dividends. The stock has soared, with a paper profit to the group of more than $6,000,000. Some critics thought the profit came out of money needed for new equipment, and spoke darkly of "scuttle & run" operations. Wolfson blithely answered that the dividends should have been distributed...