Word: coined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gold and silver reserves of the Bank of Mexico were used up last spring trying to keep the Mexican peso worth 28? . It has now crashed to 20? . Mexicans last week tried to find takers who would accept 210 paper pesos in exchange for one 50-peso silver coin...
...nickel which has been in circulation since 1913. Last week the Bureau of the Mint announced that the public would have to wait till October. Reason: The Federal Fine Arts Commission did not like the original design (TIME, May 2), insisted on a new style of lettering on the coin, on changes in the detail of Thomas Jefferson's head on the obverse, on Artist Felix Schlag's redesigning the reverse so as to show Jefferson's home Monticello in front view instead of side view. After dies for a new coin are complete it takes five...
...become a deficit of some $40,000,000. If the future looked rosy even to Economic Four-Year-Plan Administrator General Hermann Wilhelm Göring, he would hardly have issued, as he did last week, a decree obliging everyone in Germany to turn over every last gold coin to the State, as did Franklin Roosevelt four years ago. Mostly such coins are ten and 20-mark gold pieces of the German Empire...
...TIME, always resourceful and concise, coin a word describing the occupation of a person who lives on an income from investments...
Several weeks ago, in your review of [TIME, March 21] Richard Eberhart's Reading the Spirit, you called this young, intelligent, deep-thinking poet a "ham." Everyone knows what a "ham" actor is, but it seems to me TIME has very vulgarly tried to coin a new word where there is no need...