Word: cartwheeled
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Dates: during 1925-1925
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Last week the green-coated police of Berlin detected and waylaid a package addressed to ex-Kaiser Wilhelm, Doorn, Holland. The package was about the proper bulk and proportions to contain a cartwheel. Was Wilhelm building a rustic cart? Had he found the wheels too much...
...Filene's suggestion seemed to forecast an event already made inevitable by the disappearance of the immigrant trade. It has the grand simplicity of the big business man, is characteristic of an age wherein ten dollars are made from the masses to every cartwheel wrung from...
...Treasury has attempted to give the Bureau time to cure a few million bills by issuing the silver dollar or "cartwheel." But this endeavor failed dismally, as the public has for some reason become greatly prejudiced against the largest silver coin. From the Treasury standpoint, a circulation of silver dollars would be quite considerably cheaper than one of paper money, owing to the constant expense of engraving and printing new bills for old. Thousands of dollars could be saved annually if 40,000,000 silver dollars could be kept in circulation. But this is apparently a useless wish. Back...