Word: forte
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...like Tangier or Zurich into the small, easily transported 2.2-lb. gold bars, which have become the world's favorite form of hoarding. In France alone, bankers estimated that more than $4.5 billion in gold was hidden away-equal to about one-fifth of the total left in Fort Knox...
...artillerymen train at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, for six weeks before their senior year. There they work out in the field tactical problems which they have done on paper and sand-table models through the winter. Live ammunition is brought up for the 105 m.m. howitzers which are used in dry runs at College. The soldiers live at camp with other members of the "Ivy League Battery...
...17th Century English traders built a fort on the Gold Coast, competed fiercely with Dutch, Danes and Portuguese for slaves and gold. Early in the 19th Century the slave traffic was abolished. Today, in a jungle domain almost as large as Oregon, the leading enterprises are cocoa production, gold and manganese mining...
...Fort Wayne 75, Philadelphia...
...Fort Wayne 120, New York...