Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rate of $15 per $100. The sleuths crept toward a loft building, dashed up stairs, smashed down a door to find four counterfeiters with their pockets stuffed with their own product. They also found an offset press, several thousand counterfeit $5 Chase National Bank notes, steel and copper plates for $5 notes. The Press was told that the ring had circulated more than a million $1 bills in the last six months...
...Harvard; in North Easton, Mass. Married. Dorothy Benjamin Caruso (Ingram), 40, widow of Enrico Caruso; and Dr. Charles Adams Holder, 60, inhabitant of Paris; in Paris. Married. Martha Munro Ferguson. 25, daughter of Arizona's famed, comely Mrs. Isabella Greenway whose glamorous history includes ranching, cattle-raising, copper-mining, acting as bridesmaid for Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt, seconding the Roosevelt nomination in Chicago; and Charles ("Chuck") Breasted, 34, son of famed Archeologist James Henry Breasted; at Mrs. Greenway's ranch near Tyrone, N. Mex. Separated, Mary Pickford, 40, and Douglas Fairbanks, 50, long reputed the happiest couple...
Away up in his green copper crusted tower in Memorial Hall the Vagabond stirred uneasily on his crumby couch and dug his knuckles into smarting eyes to shut out the light. He yawned painfully, stretched his cramped limbs, and turned over...
...Should the United States, Great Britain and France fail to point a way out of the economic morass at this Conference," snapped Copper King Francqui, "the small nations of Europe will cluster about the one sole statesman capable of leadership- MUSSOLINI. // Duce is fostering sensible ideas for united action while the Great Powers are doing nothing. The small nations, crying for leadership, will follow Mussolini...
Prices. No less amazing has been the rise in prices. Moody's index of sensitive commodity prices shot from 78.7 to 123.8 last week. Wheat has jumped from a 1933 low of 48¾? a bushel to 75½?, cotton from 5.90? a pound to 9.45?. copper from 5? a pound to 8? hogs from $2.85 a cwt. to $4.60. Between $2,000,000.000 and $3,000,000,000 has been added to the value of U. S. crops. A booming New Deal market has swelled stock values $12,000,000,000 and bond values...