Word: coin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...street to be acclaimed for having won a great bet. Garibaldi the Magnificent furnishes Mark Hopkins' palace on Nob Hill for a commission of $100,000, having chests of gold dragged to his cottage door each week and Neronic feasts of roast duck, bouillabaisse and champagne, while the coin is counted...
Last week the final preparations were made for opening on Sept. 1 of a new government bank of issue, with a capital of 100,000,000 pesos ($50,000,000) which will circulate paper money. Hitherto practically all business transactions in Mexico have been made with gold or silver coin. In the financial district of the capital, messenger boys run from bank to bank carrying clinking bags of coin...
...city of Cologne recently obtained $10,000,000 through a 6½% twenty-five year bond issue, floated by a New York banking syndicate headed by Blair & Co. Principal and interest are payable in New York City in U. S. gold coin. The issue in regular course was listed on the New York Curb Market...
...Subscriber Anderson mistakes the etymology and hence the spelling of the expression: "don't give a dam." The dam, small Indian coin, was put into this expression by British Army officers, who made the phrase current when they returned home from India. In etymology, it is similar to the expression: "don't give a continental...
...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...