Word: bullion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lady Drained. Whether under political orders or not, French bankers were calling home gold from England at a steadily increasing rate. From the Bank of England went $145,500,000 of bullion in 13 days. In one day alone losses were $16,911,700 (chiefly bar gold) the greatest drain the Old Lady of Threadneedle had known in all her 237 years...
...more significant than the rise in stock prices, last week, was a world-wide gain in commodities. The most important gain was that registered in silver. The only calm thing about the Bombay silver bullion exchange is the sacred cow which, fat and lazy, spends most of her time in somnambulistic repose, blinking sadly and chewing her cud. During the Depression the sacred cow has seen many disconcerting things. Silver has dropped from 1929's high of 57½? to the historic low of 25½?per fine ounce. The only notable interruption was the remarkable corner staged last...
Markets crashed, governments tottered, Warren Rand went on about his business. When he had collected bullion worth $3,500,000,000 in his private bank, he summoned the representatives of Italy, France, Germany, England...
...September the little Artiglio bobbed on front pages of the U. S. press when her grappling hooks struck the submerged wreck of the P. & O. liner Egypt, a steamer that sank off Finistere in 1922 with a loss of 92 lives, with $5,000,000 in gold and silver bullion in her strong room (TIME, Sept. 8). For eight years salvage crews had searched for the Egypt. Because of the unusual depth at which she lay-426 ft.-none could reach her. The Artiglio did so. At the greatest depth at which divers have ever worked, one of the Artiglio...
...would draw forth three golden fishes which would spell wealth, happiness. Sadko rushed home, cast aside his doting wife, proceeded to the quay where he wagered the merchants his head against their wealth that he could catch the golden fish. When he succeeded, found himself with heaps of glittering bullion, he asked three strangers what lands to seek. A Varangian sang of his bleak country, a Hindu sang of India (here in the opera comes the long-suffering "Song"), but a Venetian tempted him most...