Word: denver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since the Federal Government began paying $35 an ounce for gold last January, Treasury assay & mint offices at New York, Philadelphia, Denver, San Francisco, New Orleans and Seattle have been doing a bargain-counter business with the general public. People who paid $20.67 an oz. for the gold in their false teeth, loving cups, medals, belt buckles, mesh bags, spoons and watch chains have been cashing in this scrap to make a 75% profit. Last week the Treasury announced that from Jan. 31 to June 22 receipts of scrap gold at the mints and assay offices had exceeded newly mined...
Died. Charles Spalding Thomas, 84, silver money advocate, onetime (1899-1901) Governor of Colorado, onetime (1913-21) U. S. Senator; after a six-month illness; in Denver. Strongly individualistic, he opposed closed shops, payment of the Soldiers' Bonus, fought hard for the 16-to-1 silver-gold ratio. Last year he announced he was hoarding $120 in gold, tried unsuccessfully to be brought to trial...
Last week the first transcontinental trains ever to pass through Denver chufied through the Moffatt Tunnel ("Gateway to Nowhere") and on to the West Coast- two double-header freights loaded with Nebraska corn, Colorado coal, stoves, grits, lumber, hoboes. Instead of going around through Pueblo to the south or Cheyenne to the north, they bored under the Continental Divide, rattled down the Denver & Salt Lake, switched off on the new Dotsero Cutoff to Denver & Rio Grande Western's main line into Salt Lake City. Next day the Governors of Colorado and Utah, the Mayors of Denver and Salt Lake...
...PLEASE KEEP YOUR WHITE TRASH IN CHICAGO AND SEND US A GENTLEMAN REPORTER THE SHELBI Memphis, Tenn. Budd's Face Sirs: Very few of the newshawks, including TIME'S own experts, noticed a most interesting episode of the Burlington Zephyr's wonderful record-breaking trip from Denver to Chicago [TIME, June 4]: at almost the last minute and as the train was poised to make its eastbound leap from Denver, one of the essential armature bearings burned put. There was no spare part. President Ralph Budd who was out in Colorado with the train and a group...
...Lord Lonsdale gives a party to circus folk once a year. Last week he attended one given to the bandy-legged members of a U. S. rodeo troupe now touring England. Cables flashed and the Empire was shocked when His Grace, at the climax of hilarity, boasted: "I remember Denver when it was only one shack. When I first saw Cheyenne, the capital of Wyoming, there was only one shed there. Some of my friends went out to hold up the Denver stage coach. I was with them. All the others are now dead so there is no reason...