Word: coin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...agreed to accept the paper at face value. Every time a scrip dollar changes hands, the receiver sticks on it a 2? stamp, bought from the Merchants' Association. When the back of an Eirma bill has been covered with 50 stamps, it can be redeemed in U. S. coin. Merchants who have bought stamps will be credited with the amount in tax anticipation warrants. Milwaukee and Chicago pondered following Evanston's lead...
...beauteous Arkansas soprano who went from the Follies to Metropolitan Opera to retirement, tried a comeback during the introduction of celebrity-guests at the opening of the supper club in Manhattan's Ritz-Carlton Hotel. In a pause between phrases of "Carry Me Back to Old Virginia," a coin clattered at her feet, flipped by a sot. Mary Lewis stooped, picked up the coin, finished her song amid tremendous applause...
While the Assay Office keeps gold & silver, its main business is to test coins and bullion, analyze ore samples for all-comers at a small fee. It is run as a department of the Mint, with headquarters in Manhattan, branches in New Orleans, Seattle, Salt Lake City, Boise, Helena, Carson and Deadwood. Once a year, in the presence of the Director of the Mint, the Assay Commission meets to test samples of U. S. coins. One gold piece out of 1,000 and one silver coin out of 2,000 are selected at random. All incoming foreign coins and bullion...
...week this practice was banned in the diocese of Rome by its vicar general, Francesco Cardinal Marchetti-Selvaggiani. After July 1 there is to be no crass candle-traffic within the churches. Candles may be burnt as before but it will be less convenient to give a friend a coin and say "Burn a candle for me." Also, there is to be no more photographing of sacred functions, no exuberant decking of shrines with garish artificial flowers. Said Cardinal Marchetti-Selvaggiani: "The present use of candles can easily take on the appearance of superstition. One mass well heard, one communion...
...Artiglio II's mucky deck carried about $200,000 in gold coin and bullion. Next day they clawed another quarter of a million from the Egypt; the third day enough to make $875,000 old, and one blackened silver ingot. More gold remained; and under the gold, stacks of silver. Commander Quaglia refreshed his men with champagne, and scurried for England. For the French were after...