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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...make a profit of about $2,000,000,000 and the money is coming from the American people, who patriotically turned in their gold and gold certificates last March. This is the capital levy or contribution which the nonhoarding public will make if the devaluation of the gold content of the dollar goes through as planned, namely on a basis of a discount of one-third from its previous par value...
...profit arises from the fact that gold has always been valued at $20.67 an ounce; but if the amount of gold content in every dollar is reduced by one-third and yet the unit of value is called a dollar, then less gold will be used for every dollar or, to put it another way, the gold supply will be converted into fifty per cent more dollars. The gold supply locked up is in the neighborhood of four billion dollars. Some of this belongs to the Treasury anyway, but most of it belongs to the American people who deposited...
Gold today is valued at close to $30 an ounce in terms of the British pound or the gold franc. This is in anticipation of the devaluation process. If of course the American Government decides to devalue the gold content of the dollar not by a third but by one-half, the price of an ounce of gold would jump to about $40 in terms of the new dollar. Thus the four billions of gold supply would be worth eight billions of dollars and the Government would make a four billion profit...
Besides unripeness, babies suffer a violent shock during the process of being born. The shock shifts the water content of the body cells, also makes them unfit to retain water. The baby is water-starved. To overcome dehydration due to birth shock, Dr. Kugelmass has tried feeding newborns a solution of gelatin, salt and dextrose...
...cannot explain himself to the public without losing the prospect of his mission. Perhaps the easy success to which any anti-Hoover candidate would have come seduced the great Secretary into dreams of electoral mastery; but the rough and tumble of a New York campaign should leave him content with new stamp issues and public speaking safely cloistered from the razor minds which discomfort...