Word: bullion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dollar Line's 22,000-ton President Coolidge prepared to pull out of the Yangtze mouth, Shanghai customs officials, acting on orders from Japanese military authorities, suddenly suspended the vessel's clearance papers. Reason: stowed aboard was silver worth $4,500,000, mostly bullion belonging to the Chinese Government but some of it jewelry and silver ware donated by patriotic Chinese for the purchase of war materials. The consignment was on its way to New York's Chase National Bank. The Japanese claimed that the silver rightfully belonged to the Japanese-controlled new Chinese Government at Shanghai...
...place: Manhattan's U. S. Assay Office. The strikers: A. F. of L. armored-car guards, who wanted to ride (at union pay) with U. S. Coast Guardsmen stationed on trucks hauling silver bullion to West Point, N.Y. (TIME, July 11). The winner: Contractor Peter James Malley Jr., who continued to haul U. S. silver under U. S. gun & guard...
...Nellie Taylor Ross, winsome Wyoming widow who once presided over all lady Democrats as Vice Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, now presides over all U. S. coinage & bullion as director of the Mint. Last month she made a trip to West Point to inspect the vast strong box she had had built in a corner of the Military Academy's reservation. Semi-sunken, its obdurate walls made of reinforced concrete, Mrs. Ross's strong box is to hold over a billion and a quarter dollars' worth of silver bullion purchased by the Treasury in Manhattan...
...that springtime of U. S. imperialism, Batopilas was a wonderful place to grow up in. The prosperous mines shipped as much as $200,000 worth of bullion a month. The native workmen were contented, friendly, pleased with their steady wages, the company store, the hospital, the electric lights, respectful toward the manager El Patron Grande and his sons, Los Patroncitos. The countryside was beautiful, with orange trees growing within high hacienda walls, with the swift Batopilas rushing beside the house, with ruins left by the Spaniards, who had worked the mines...
...Eighth, stop credit inflation juggling. Make the currency convertible into bullion at the irreparable 59-cent dollar and repeal all authority for currency inflation...