Word: coin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under Soviet law the ruble is a coin with an "official gold value" for which nobody can get gold. Big difference today between the Roosevelt dollar and the Stalin ruble-a vast difference-lies in the fact that the Dictator rigidly sets the price of rubles for foreigners, whereas the President merely uses his stabilization fund to keep exchange fluctuation in bounds. Stalin has any Russian caught exporting or importing rubles shot, and rubles are confiscated from tourists at the Russian frontier. Result: Russians mistrust the ruble so much that in Russia it is "worth about...
...look anywhere in the world but Russia to see luxury in full bloom, most Americans will view the pictures of the new Moscow subway as evidence that, once in a while at least, the camera does lie. As if paying back a jeering capitalist world in its own coin, Mr. Stalin has constructed a subway system in his capital city, which, if the pictures are to be believed, is a cross between the Widener reading-room and the Radio City Music Hall. Although poor capitalistic New Yorkers and Bostonians ride to work in dismal, cement-crusted burrows, the sybaritic Muscovites...
...every schoolboy, but he vitalizes it with many a contemporary detail. While the war was still only imminent, many a Northern businessman tried to collect his Southern debts. One of them got this reply: "I promise to pay, five minutes after demand, to any northern Abolitionist, the same coin in which we paid John Brown." When the war actually broke, Secretary of State Seward's first suggestion was to reunite the Union by declaring war on France and Spain. Old General Winfield Scott hit nearer the truth than anyone by hazarding the opinion that 300,000 men under good...
...Well, it's over now," said the secretary. "If I may coin a phrase, the King signed his abdication at 1:45 with 'sad or unhappy relief,' certainly with relief. Here it is. He is no longer King of Siam but to us he will always be King...
...writer who deals in facts, Author Feuchtwanger polishes his wares until they seem as valuable and glittering as new-minted coin. Title-story in this book is a compressed novelet (it covers 35 years in 29 pages) of the love affair between Warren Hastings, ruler of India, and a little German hausfrau. Others: the fatally successful altitude flight of a French airman; a bullfight seen through a German painter's eyes; an aging poet catches his death of cold in trying to show off before a hen-brained girl...