Word: bullion
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...millions, for example, from the country's cigarette-tobacco monopoly. But Seagrave estimates that the ex-dictator's fortune may be as much as $100 billion. Whence came that awesome wealth? Seagrave's answer is that Marcos had located and dug up part of a vast horde of stolen bullion known as "Yamashita's Gold...
...them. It's goodbye to the pound, the ounce, the gill (4 fl. oz.) and the rod (a quarter of a chain). But the furlong will stay because it occurs only in sports, as will the troy ounce (31 g, vs. 28 g for the standard ounce) because gold-bullion operations couldn't survive without it. As for the pint, the measure of morning milk and evening ale for millions, London hopes the Community will agree that it just wouldn't be cricket to abolish...
During the New York trial, Bunker Hunt testified that he began accumulating silver in 1973 as a hedge against inflation, "to invest in something I could get my hands on." By late 1979, the brothers had acquired more than 180 million oz. of bullion and coin. Prices rocketed to euphoric heights, hitting a peak of $50.35 per oz. in January...
...treasure not up for auction at what Christie's New York called the most spectacular shipwreck sale in history was the $1 million worth of salvaged gold draped around Mel Fisher's well-tanned neck. He is the 65-year- old treasure hunter whose 20-year search for sunken bullion finally paid off three years ago, when he discovered the main cargo of the Nuestra Seora de Atocha, a booty-laden Spanish galleon that foundered in stormy seas off Florida's Key West in 1622. Last week Fisher watched as more than 400 of the hundreds of thousands of artifacts...
Born Wong Min-yee, she goes by her given Christian name, Harriet, and her husband's family name, Watt. Upon graduation from St. John's University in Shanghai, she landed a job trading gold bullion on the Shanghai Stock Exchange. After she fled her homeland, she served as business manager in TIME's Hong Kong and Tokyo bureaus. Watt arrived at the magazine's New York City office in 1956, became an American citizen and continued rising through the business-side ranks. By the late 1960s she had consolidated her hold on our spending habits and our hearts...