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Word: prospectors (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mining engineer this statement seems to offer obscurities. A rough calculation indicates that this amount of coal would be roughly 45 billion tons or a seam 100 feet wide, 1,000 feet deep and 5 miles long. I did not realize that Admiral Byrd had become such a prospector...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 14, 1939 | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

Plump Adah Isaacs Menken, whose strip-tease opera, Mazeppa, had the town on its ear, wrote daring poems in the tradition of her good friend Walt Whitman. Henry George, tiny, tenacious, hopeful ex-sailor-prospector-typesetter and future author of Progress and Poverty, wrote on spiritualism and phrenology as well as political economy. Yellow Bird (John Rollin Ridge), half-Cherokee son of a Georgia plantation owner, contributed the West's most famous folk tale in The Life & Adventures of Joaquin Murieta, the Celebrated California Bandit. Most talented woman writer was tall, dark-eyed Ina Donna Coolbrith, sweetheart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Golden Era | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

...Stanford and Harvard Business School and since then a radio engineer, to get into seismographic oil prospecting, not only because his father has prospected off & on all his life (and still does), but because the sound technique leans heavily on radio principles. Herbert Jr., at 35, is a prospector in a big way, employing 200 men in five laboratories. He lives with his wife and three children in a secluded whitewashed brick house behind Pasadena, rides and plays a little tennis, but has little time for social doings and no time for country clubs. Most of the time he works...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Prospector's Son | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

Next printing of Pocket Books was 25,000 copies of each title. With these in his pack, Prospector de Graff will plunge boldly into the great U. S. literary desert. Behind him he leaves a big question mark: Can he equal the success of Penguin Books and Tauchnitz Editions in Europe (combined sales of 25,000,000 a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cheap Books | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

...prospector named Jules Cross became convinced there was iron under the lake. After he met up with Joseph Errington, a prosperous oldtime mining man, professional geologists definitely established existence of the ore body. The two promoters feel sure of at least 100,000,000 tons in the property they have now bought up, and chartered as Steep Rock Iron Mines Ltd. (Joseph Errington, president), with authority from the Ontario Government to issue 5,000,000 shares...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MINING: Steep Rock | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

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