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Dara Horn '99 is working as a reporter-researcher at Time magazine. She wrote this piece by the light of a halogen lamp, while drinking liquefied bullion cubes from a free...
...were offended by the gold-bullion Nazi symbol on your cover. Your choice of this symbol rather than the Star of David was inappropriate and used for sensationalistic purposes. CHERYL and ANDY KAPLAN Gainesville, Florida...
...concentration-camp victims. As early as 1943, when Washington launched Project Safehaven to locate the Nazi plunder and find out where it was going, the U.S. knew most of it was entering Switzerland. That year, spymaster Dulles warned the Swiss government that much of the 100 tons of gold bullion the Reichsbank was selling for Swiss francs was stolen. Eventually, Safehaven agents concluded that some $6 billion in Nazi assets had been transferred into Switzerland from 1938 to 1945 under cover of bank-secrecy laws...
Canceling debts (he asked to be paid in gold bullion...
...called Smalltalk and a machine called the Alto). Levy re-creates in vivid detail the December 1979 "daylight raid," when the scrappy engineers from Apple, invited to see the Alto, walked into a Xerox demo room and walked out with something more valuable than Federal Reserve notes or gold bullion: a working paradigm for what a computer should...