Word: coine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Willie could afford to ask, and did: "So what?" Yet he never bets more than a piddling amount on a race. Not that he isn't a gambler. When he bought $125,000 worth of horses from General Motorsman Henry Knight this year, he offered to flip a coin, double or nothing. Knight hesitated for a moment, then settled for a straight sale...
Such movies are not important, or even as entertaining and well-made as a little more working time could make them. They are just the humble small change of American cinema. But the change, however small, is honest coin; whereas too many of cinema's million-dollar checks are signed in invisible ink and made of ersatz rubber...
Banker Vieck regretted that he could not show the cache of gold; somebody had lost the key to the chamber. The Americans obligingly blew out the wall. And there was the gold, each 25-lb. bar wrapped in a sack, each sack tagged: "Reichsbank." There were sacks of gold coin, some of them too heavy for a man to lift. There seemed to be even more gold stacked in the dim-lit, salt-crusted chamber than Vieck had said...
Path of Progress. In London, Polish Engineer Jan Horzelski announced his invention of a coin-flipping machine which can be adjusted to flip either heads or tails with 99% accuracy...
...coins-261,064 of them-had piled up all last year in the pyx box*-one coin from each batch (or part thereof) of 2,000 silver coins delivered from the coining room to the superintendent of all U.S. mints during the year. The Assay Commission (eleven Presidential civilian appointees, three ex-officio members), using the official mint weights, went to work, testing, weighing, counting. To nobody's surprise, the commission found the U.S.'s 1944 coinage sound...