Word: bullion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Japanese high command were with their Emperor Hirohito watching autumn maneuvers at Kyushu. The Chinese high command were, with the greatest unanimity ever seen in China, at the Kuomintang Party Conference in Nanking. The Nanking Government plumed themselves on their brilliance in having called in all silver coin and bullion (TIME, Nov. 11), thus forcing the Japanese-dominated banks of North China to declare for either Japan or China. Last week Japanese Army men warned the North China banks not to deliver the silver to Nanking. Slowly maturing was the Japanese-inspired plan for five provinces of North China...
...awaiting shipment to the U. S. Most of it was disgorged by hoarders, frightened by the European war buzz. Since all gold landed in the U. S. must be sold to the Treasury, timorous capitalists apparently preferred Roosevelt paper dollars in a U. S. bank to hard bullion in a European vault...
...motorized cavalry. The three Christie tanks, eleven-ton monsters, were capable of traveling 60 m.p.h. on roads, 30 m.p.h. over hill & dale. The mechanized detachment of the ist Cavalry (at present stationed at Fort Knox, Ky., where the Treasury is building great underground vaults in which to store gold bullion) consisted of two fully armored, five-ton, six-wheeled cars, two "half tracks" (semi-caterpillars), a rolling kitchen capable of preparing meals at 40 m.p.h., a motorcycle and sidecar and a baggage truck...
Five notable results of President Roosevelt's silver purchasing policy have been: 1) a panic in China, 2) temporary dislocation of the Mexican banking system, 3) enrichment of a number of speculators at home & abroad, 4) accumulation of an enormous hoard of bullion which the Treasury may never be able to sell and 5) booming bar trade in all the mining camp saloons of the Mountain States...
Richest strike in Nevada's fabulous Corn-stock Lode was made in March 1873 when the Consolidated Virginia mine opened a silvershot vein 54 ft. thick. Before it was played out the vein yielded $190,000,000 in pure bullion and made a onetime Irish immigrant clerk one of the richest men in the greatest get-rich-quick era in U. S. history. Like many another bonanza king, John William Mackay beat a quick & gaudy path to the capitals of Europe but he did leave an enduring monument to his amazing energy-Postal Telegraph...