Word: coin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...terms of Bank of England notes, foreign exchange was difficult, inflation loomed. A Parliamentary Bullion Committee met, wanted to resume specie payments. But Vansittart urged the country to stay off the gold standard, insisted that public faith in the Government was enough to make paper money a satisfactory coin of the realm. His side won. Inflation did occur and the national economy limped along until 1819, when, with Vansittart's views in complete disfavor, the country returned to the gold standard with a sigh of relief...
Command. On July 7 this sputtering, sprawling War in China will be four years old. Four years of war have hurt China a lot, but have also taught China a lot. The most spectacular discovery, for a nation in which military leadership has classically been an affair of coin and cunning rather than martial skill, has been that China could turn out first-class officer talent...
...Frank Edward Gimlett, 75, oldtime prospector from Salida, Colo., was in town. Said he: "I came here to find out what we are going to use for money." If necessary, he vowed, he would visit every member of Congress to discover why he was getting greenbacks instead of gold coin for the metal he mined. Opening a leather pouch, he pulled out a pair of women's garters with gold buckles set with $5 gold pieces...
...young man dropped a coin in the turnstile, walked out on to the platform. But instead of boarding a train, he stood there and watched while three other people came through the turnstile after him. Then he looked hastily around, darted to the turnstile, put his lips to the coin slot, sucked. At this point the amazed Mr. Milli bounded out of hiding and grabbed him. In the young man's mouth. Milli later declared, was a nickel...
Appearing with his captive before Magistrate Charles Solomon. Milli explained how it was done: the ingenious and germ-defying young man, who said that he was Chester Madzenski, dropped a squashed penny into the slot; it stuck there, instead of falling into the coin box. Subsequent nickels piled up on top of it. Madzenski apparently had it figured out that when three nickels had been dropped on top of his penny, the last one would be near enough to the top so that he could suck...