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...rates had long discouraged utilities from expanding. When MexLight began in 1903, it put up dollars and expected dividends in the same coin. But it had to collect revenues in pesos, and the peso, worth about a dollar then, brings only 8? now. The government balked at letting utility rates rise as fast as the peso fell, thus profits sank lower and lower in dollars...
While tracing Hannibal through the Alps, Sir Gavin got interested in those elephants: Were they the African, he asked, or the Indian species? A coin-collecting friend gave the answer by showing him Carthaginian coins with big-eared elephants on them. Sir Gavin's conclusion: Hannibal's "tanks" came from Mauritania (Morocco), where elephants were plentiful...
...church. He advanced timidly, seemingly bewildered and frightened, and fell on his knees in front of the altar. When I approached him and he heard my step, he jumped up, ready to fire. But then he calmed down and smiled at me, and before he left, he put a coin in the alms box. He went out of the church looking around suspiciously, as though he had committed a crime...
...costs (a campaign address, or opening statement, must be printed, enveloped and sent to every voter), headquarters' rent and similar expenses. The candidate himself may spend an additional $280 for expenses-three or four weeks' worth of transportation, meals, hotel, laundry, etc. A precise accounting of every coin spent must be saved for the Returning Officer, and the law is rigidly specific about what the campaign funds may not be spent...
...that all he has to say on that great occasion is one word: "Thanks." That, doubtless, is just what he will say. But "You're welcome" would be more appropriate, for the award itself is a kind of thanks for something that could never be paid for in coin of the realm: a 24-carat contribution to American art. In an age when the younger generation of artists is plunging headlong into the fashionable mists of abstractionism, Hopper is a spearhead of the opposite tradition, that art should reflect the contemporary scene...