Word: ets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...They loaned the Bank of England approximately $643,000,000 (TIME Aug. 17 et seq.) which proved not enough to keep the pound on gold. * Bryan's ratio was 16 to 1. Today an ounce of gold will buy approximately 70 oz. of silver...
...summer with big depth bombs and small depth bombs, grim Italian divers have blown and bubbled their way slowly nearer to a bullion treasure of $5,000,000 sunk off the west coast of France in the strong room of the foundered British liner Egypt (TIME, Sept. 8, 1930 et seq.). Last week with the treasure almost grasped, the Italian diver ship Artiglio II ran out of wine & spaghetti, promptly put back to the harbor of Brest. There, while she took on cases of spaghetti and 600 litres of the scorching red wine that Italian seamen like, her divers talked...
...talk was mostly about an aerial survey of China's stricken flood area (TIME, Aug. 24 et seq.) begun last week by the Lindberghs. Already they had made several flights, snapped pictures, plotted flood maps...
More tribulation struck the Matto Grosso Expedition (TIME, June 1 et ante) on the Brazilian-Bolivian border last week. John S. Clarke Jr.. one of the backers and leaders, shot a jaguar. In the excitement another member of the party shot...
...cases, which are Raynor vs. Anderson et al and Jones vs. Ames Electric Power Company et al respectively, are tried before state supreme court or United States Supreme Court Judges, who will be chosen and invited later...