Word: coins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even after the Canadian dollar climbed above the value of the U.S. dollar early this year, most Canadian tradesmen accepted U.S. coins at par rather than bother with fractional discounts. But U.S. coinage, which trickles in at a steady rate with tourists and travelers, tended to stay in Canada and circulate; it was easier to keep the stuff moving than turn it in to a bank in small quantities. By last week the dual coinage was getting to be such a nuisance that Canadian banks moved to end it by putting an extra handling charge on coin exchanges. To protect...
...government's, but the government usually has the last word about that. Last week a Swiss court reviewed the case of two alleged counterfeiters, Yugoslav Zdravko Beraha and Italian Giuseppi Bernardi, who for months in Milan had been manufacturing British sovereigns* just as good as those once coined by the Royal Mint. With five helpers, the pair had turned out the coins at a rate of 1,000 a day from gold exactly as pure as that used in the real thing. Each coin had netted them a tidy profit of some 1,750 lire ($2.80). How did they...
...Schweitzer, the missionary in the Belgian Congo. While Pastor Macartney has been preaching to congregations of educated, cultured people, some of whom doubtless are fairly wealthy, Dr. Schweitzer ministers to African natives untaught in the ways of polite society, ignorant, poor, and unable to repay him except in the coin of gratitude and love. But by Dr. Macartney's doctrinal standards, Dr. Schweitzer is a modernist, a heretic ... He denies many of the basic doctrines that to Dr. Macartney are essential elements of Christianity...
Dwight Eisenhower watched the balloting on his TV set in his suite at the Blackstone Hotel. He was surrounded by advisers-his four brothers, Paul Hoffman, Senator Frank Carlson, Herbert Brownell. Ike was confident of victory, but he nervously fingered two good-luck coins (a Boy Scout coin and'a Salvation Army piece...
...notes.) His friends see him as a last hope of sensible liberalism. He is a large, whitehaired man, who appears to be a little disconsolate in the company of strangers. His voice is low and husky, and as he talks, he abstractly fingers a couple of worn coins. As on an old coin, the familiar face has grown a little indistinct. Heavily framed spectacles sometimes slip down to the end of the short nose; around the turned-down mouth, the once plump bull-terrier cheeks now sag mastiff-like...