Word: coin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...every one congregated there for a demi-taste which one is served there (courtesy of the Corporation) after lunch and dinner. We liked the way the morning papers are stacked at the entrance of the hall, with no more urgent a spur to the conscience than a mute, coin-filled plate on guard...
...Blair and his childless wife Philly were as poor as their neighbors, maybe poorer. So when Andy, chopping at a stump of firewood, struck an iron pot, he was sure it was a pot of gold. For once Andy w was right: the pot held over $1,900 in coin, and two pearls. At first the old couple wanted to run and tell everybody, then they thought better of it. They hid the treasure in the house, invited the neighbors to a surprise party. By the time the night of the party came they had worried so much about their...
...small U. S. banks have adopted such a policy, but the majority hide their true condition in a conglomerate of massive figures. The Fifth Avenue Bank of New York, old, much patronized by dowagers, is unusually frank. Its statement of resources provides for 21 items and even separates coin from paper money. Yet a sum of ten millions includes all "public securities." How much of the amount is in Governments, how much in less liquid State and Municipals is not revealed...
...form means simply that we shall maintain an open and free market for the sale here by Europeans of any listed or unlisted securities which they desire to sell at existing prices, and that Europeans are free to ask to have the proceeds shipped in the form of gold coin or bullion...
They said they have blasted down to actual contact with the Egypt's strong room wall. To burst it may be possible before winter storms set in. The splendid shilling (an ordinary English coin dated 1918) is the first "treasure," the first bit of precious metal brought up from the Egypt after more than a year of diving...