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...Moines a suspect held by the police explained his hoard of dimes by insisting he was a coin collector. Des Moines and other Iowa banks had to call on Chicago's Federal Reserve for fresh supplies of dimes...
Scrofula, in the middle ages, was called the King's Evil, because the touch of a royal finger, generally accompanied by the gift of gold coin bearing an angel's likeness, was supposed to cure that disease. But no textbook on pathology describes the ailment which Washingtonians sometimes refer to as ''the disease of Presidents." Neither gold coins nor Presidential touch cures it, for it is something that Presidents themselves contract. Last week as newshawks filed into a White House press conference they found Franklin Roosevelt looking rather brighter-eyed than usual. He began to talk...
...Coin gambling machines account for less than one-third of the Mills slot business. They make pin games; ordinary vending machines for gum. candy and cigarets; automatic phonographs that play one record for 5''. popular in post-Repeal "taverns" and "grills.'' Only significant non-slot Mills product is a counter ice cream freezer selling from...
Under Soviet law the ruble is a coin with an "official gold value" for which nobody can get gold. Big difference today between the Roosevelt dollar and the Stalin ruble-a vast difference-lies in the fact that the Dictator rigidly sets the price of rubles for foreigners, whereas the President merely uses his stabilization fund to keep exchange fluctuation in bounds. Stalin has any Russian caught exporting or importing rubles shot, and rubles are confiscated from tourists at the Russian frontier. Result: Russians mistrust the ruble so much that in Russia it is "worth about...
...look anywhere in the world but Russia to see luxury in full bloom, most Americans will view the pictures of the new Moscow subway as evidence that, once in a while at least, the camera does lie. As if paying back a jeering capitalist world in its own coin, Mr. Stalin has constructed a subway system in his capital city, which, if the pictures are to be believed, is a cross between the Widener reading-room and the Radio City Music Hall. Although poor capitalistic New Yorkers and Bostonians ride to work in dismal, cement-crusted burrows, the sybaritic Muscovites...