Word: gold
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stands for $500 in gold which the banker is supposed to have in his bank. Each of the other five players is dealt 20 cards from a 100 card deck divided into ten suits. Each suit stands for an industry, such as Coal Mine, Brickfield, Wagon Works, Loom, Pottery, Saw Mill, etc. During the course of the game, the Banker attempts to buy from the players all the cards of all the suits. As soon as he can absorb one entire suit, or establish a monopoly in that industry, he can add that suit, or that industry, to the assets...
...granted him medals and prizes of honor: Franklin Institute (Potts and Franklin medals), Paris 1900 Exposition, Louisiana Purchase 1904 Exposition, Institute of Architects. Last week the four great American engineering societies - civil engineers, mining & metallurgical engineers, mechanical engineers, electrical engineers - gave him their most prized honor, the John Fritz gold medal for "scientific and industrial achievements." Last recipient, honored last April, was President Herbert Clark Hoover...
Camel 2.21 Old Gold...
Quick to criticize this move were English businessmen, struggling to maintain the slow revival of British industry, for a higher rate means higher credit charges. On the other hand London bankers, nervous over the long and steady drain of gold from England, saw in the bank's announcement the only possible way of bolstering the gold reserve, down ?20,000,000 this year and now ?17,000,000 below the irreducible minimum of ?150,000,000, set by the Cunliffe Currency Commission...
Trials for the Harvard Instrumental Clubs will be held tonight in the Music Building, with competitions in the departments of Vocal, Banjo, and Mandolin Clubs, Gold Coast Orchestra, and Specialties. Two managerial competitions will also open, the winners to go on the Christmas tour with the club...