Word: coined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...London Economic Conference last July the world's silver countries entered into a four-year silver agreement (TIME, July 31). Of the great silver holding countries China promised not to melt down any coin; India, not to sell more than 35,000,000 ounces per year; Spain, not to sell more than 5.000.000 ounces. The silver-producing countries agreed to buy up 35.000.000 ounces per year and keep it off the market. The U. S. quota for silver purchases was set at 24,421,410 ounces, practically the present amount of annual U. S. production...
Peculiar, is it not, that American efficiency and ingenuity must allow such an ugly peril to gain foothold in order that lusty private enterprise might coin more wealth and on the other hand spend thousands of the taxpayers' money to control and fight the dread scourge...
Third, the fixing of a gold bullion, and not a gold exchange standard. Gold coin would not circulate, but all certificates would be gold certificates. Redemption in $5,000 bullion bars would be permitted, very much as the gold bullion standards of England and France have been operated in the past...
...uncontrolled inflation, which is already serious, increases with every day of governmental delay in announcing a definite stabilization plan." Gold Demand. In Washington, Halsey K. Davis filed a mandamus action in the District of Columbia Supreme Court alleging that on Oct. 25 he had demanded at the Treasury gold coin in payment for a $20 gold certificate and had been refused. He demanded that Secretary Woodin be ordered to pay him $20 in gold-of the old value-on the grounds that the first three sections of the banking act passed last March, and the executive orders issued under...
...special Easter offering. Southern Baptists are $5,500,000 in debt. They are organizing a "Baptists Hundred Thousand Club"-100,000 members who will give $1 extra a month to liquidate the debt in five years. Congregational & Christian Churches, about 33% behind, will specialize in parochial visiting, coin banks and a church Guest Book. Lutherans, receiving "slightly" less than last year, will canvass in November when will come the 450th anniversary of Martin Luther's birth...