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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...
Cashed In. In Spencer, Mass., Miss Lorraine O'Coin married Pfc. George Buckmaster...
...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...
...cool and sensible, Wanley commits every blunder in the books. With the body crumpled in the back of his car he very nearly gets arrested for driving through a red light. At the parkway tollgate he manages to drop his dime in the road. As he fumbles for another coin the tollkeeper pokes and pries about the car, helpfully looking for the lost coin...