Word: bullion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Late in the show, there is a good, rousing fire, and in the long run the hero makes one part of the West safe for bullion runners. It is all moderately entertaining formula, done with a slight extra edge of care, humor and understanding-except for Jane Greer...
...Russians last week wailed like so many wronged Rhine nymphs. The Central State Pawnshop of the Soviet Purchasing Commission had bought gold bullion in Berlin-50 million marks' worth of nice, shiny gold for the depleted Soviet treasury. Last week, a frantic message came from Moscow: the gold was phony! Investigation showed that Germans (among them many D.P.s) had operated an illegal smelter in Berlin, casting a base alloy with a thin gold coating into small "gold" bricks. This week, the Russian assayers who had permitted themselves to be fooled were in jail...
Montezuma, Aztec Emperor of Mexico, is said to have sighed: "The Christians must have a strange disease which only gold can cure." Most jewelry from the era before Columbus went to cure that disease-nearly all of it melted down for shipment to Spain as bullion. The few surviving objects were mostly buried deep in ancient tombs. Last week Mexico's Institute of Anthropology and History announced the discovery of 200 prehistoric gold ornaments in Oaxaca. In Brooklyn, the museum of art opened a small, comprehensive show of pre-Columbian gold, silver and jade from the Americas...
...worth only $1,900, but it was the King's trove and Snow was jubilant. Beaming at his find, he planned to get a radar set, go hunting storied New England hulks (among them the British Privateer Mary Ann, sunk off Chatham with $1,000,000 in bullion) which have hitherto evaded unscientific treasure seekers...
...legend, she became the "bank nun." Until 1924, the bank occupied a low, fortress-like pile dominating London's City, was known as The Old Lady of Threadneedle Street. (Despite its ponderous look, a workman once found his way from the street through building cracks and into the bullion room.) It withstood the bombs of the Luftwaffe...