Word: mined
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Confident that it has a gold mine in Gaston, Chateau Martin has introduced a domestic champagne for him to swoon over...
Last week Leadville was all keyed up. On a bright, brittle December morning, its townspeople gathered in their old two-story red courthouse to attend what was potentially one of the greatest bargain sales of all time. Climax Molybdenum Co.'s Bartlett Mountain mine, which contains about 90% of the world's known supply of molybdenum, was to be knocked down for its unpaid 1939 county taxes: $294,938.75, including interest...
...County officials set Climax's taxes at $101,259, had no trouble collecting. In 1939, they quadrupled the company's assessed valuation (from $4 million to over $16 million) and almost tripled Climax's bill, although the tax rate was lowered. When the county advertised the mine for sale to satisfy the tax claim, Climax advertised too, warned any bargain seekers that the company "wholly denied, challenged and controverted" the county's right to sell. Lest such legalistic language obscure the point, a Climax attorney explained: "We're telling anyone who might...
London itself, however, clearly showed the scars of incessant bombing, Fulton stated, with scarcely a city block in the entire metropolitan area untouched. Four types of bombs, 50-250, and 500-kilo bombs, and a heavy land-mine which descends by parachute are being used in the attacks on London, he said...
...Rayville having been sunk so close to shore finally materializes the fears that some of us treated as so much buckshaw before entering the outer harbor at Hong Kong this last summer. Among the usual untraceable rumors that spread around the ship, was one about mine fields that were supposed to have been all over that particular area of the China...