Word: fiat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While the Varsity will be running the four-mile fiat course against Holy Cross and M.I.T. Friday, the first-year men of the three schools will race along the track inside the Soldiers Field fence. In practice Saturday five Harvard men covered the distance of one and six-tenths miles in slightly over eight minutes...
...Bernasconi in command. The following year Italy upped the world record to 318 m. p. h., soon lost it again to Britain. Italy's efforts to regain the record took a frightful toll. She had pinned her hopes on a Macchi seaplane with a 2,800-h. p. Fiat motor driving two propellers. One after another these machines dove into Lake Garda, carrying to death in turn the crack pilots of the high speed school-Monti, Bellini, Dal Molin. Neri-until last month when Agello triumphed. British airmen maintain that the Macchi's phenomenal speed...
...farm bill Senator Wheeler from silver-producing Montana offered an amendment for 16-to-1 free coinage of the metal. Close on its heels trod Senator Frazier with an amendment for fiat money, Senator Connally for dollar devaluation, many another. The Democratic leadership, unable to stave off a vote, decided to stand and fight the currency inflationists. That meant standing and fighting one man-John William Elmer Thomas, senior Senator from Oklahoma, who for two years has been the ringleader of Congressional inflationists. This tall (6 ft. 2 in.) well-groomed Senator with slick, grey hair above a round, solemn...
...Most powerful engine in service in the world: Isotta-Fraschini's 1,000 h. p. in an Italian Fiat fighter. Most powerful engine ever to fly: Rolls Royce's special job for the 1931 Schneider Trophy, rated at 1,600 h. p., supercharged...
...finally deposits it in another bank associated with the local Clearing House. That bank either reissues it or returns it to John Citizen's bank for collection. Thus the $50 certificate has circulated like money, though it is not a promise to pay in gold. It is not fiat money (inflation's kind) because behind it stands the tangible assets of the issuing bank. It remains in circulation until banks are ready to call it in and pay out cash instead...