Word: bullion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...notable absence of Montagu Collet Norman, fox-bearded Governor of the Bank of England, an emissary from Mr. Norman's office picked up a handful of white tags and an order for 11,500 gold bars, took an elevator down 60 ft. to the Old Lady's bullion vaults. With him went an ordinary detail of scarlet-coated British guardsmen wearing bearskin hats and carrying Army rifles with fixed bayonets...
While the Assay Office keeps gold & silver, its main business is to test coins and bullion, analyze ore samples for all-comers at a small fee. It is run as a department of the Mint, with headquarters in Manhattan, branches in New Orleans, Seattle, Salt Lake City, Boise, Helena, Carson and Deadwood. Once a year, in the presence of the Director of the Mint, the Assay Commission meets to test samples of U. S. coins. One gold piece out of 1,000 and one silver coin out of 2,000 are selected at random. All incoming foreign coins and bullion...
...Artiglio II's mucky deck carried about $200,000 in gold coin and bullion. Next day they clawed another quarter of a million from the Egypt; the third day enough to make $875,000 old, and one blackened silver ingot. More gold remained; and under the gold, stacks of silver. Commander Quaglia refreshed his men with champagne, and scurried for England. For the French were after...
...still wants eagles, must now send an agent to a Federal Reserve Bank or the U. S. Assay office. (Avaricious U. S. citizens can, of course, continue to get eagles from any bank?see P-15-) Meanwhile, Bombay banks continued to send gold to London, boosted English bullion reserves over native protests. And, more important, the tireless quest for virgin gold kept on. The best spot heralded last week was in the cold northeast of Sweden where 40 rich claims await development near the Boliden mine, which last year produced twelve tons ($7,000,000) of gold. Said Count Ehrinsvard...
...that country. Altogether last week they were worth about 60% of par. Thus Japan's credit was being scrutinized in the U. S. more carefully than at any time in a decade. Prime point is that in all Japan there is only $190,000,000 worth of gold bullion, a small fraction of its paper currency and discounts...