Word: gold
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Almost roof-high and room-long in the Mines, Metals and Machinery Building stretches Treasure Mountain, showing open-pit mine operations aboveground, gold and copper mining along 500 feet of underground passageways. Good also: U. S. Steel's diorama of a steel-built San Francisco of 1999; a 555-lb. piano hanging from a thin steel thread...
...Exciting show: Cavalcade of the Golden West-24 scenes in a pageant extending from Balboa's discovery of the Pacific and Cabrillo's discovery of California, through the discovery of gold in Sutler's Mill and Custer's Last Stand, to San Francisco in the all-too-gay Barbary-Coast Nineties...
...Good luck to you! All the luck in the world!" shouted Franklin Roosevelt as the train pulled out for Quebec. They had all exchanged photographs, and the King gave the President a gold inkstand. To Their Majesties, Mr. & Mrs. Roosevelt presented copies of all the books they have written...
When Germany swallowed Austria last year, the Bank of England played ball with the Nazis, obligingly turned over to them the gold it held in the name of the Austrian banks. Later, British owners of Austrian bonds had trouble getting their money. When last March the Germans goose-stepped into Czecho-Slovakia, the British Government quickly rushed through Parliament a bill forbidding British banks to transfer former Czech gold and credits (estimated as high as $100,000,000) to the new masters of Prague. Devised to protect British creditors, this measure pleased Britons more as a means of preventing...
Last week Britons were chagrined to learn that the Nazis had in part sidestepped this restriction, had taken over $30,000,000 of Czech gold held in London in the name of the Bank for International Settlements. The Czech National Bank had a $30,000,000 credit with the B.I.S. The "World Bank," a Swiss corporation owned and operated by the central banks of the powers and a consortium of U. S. banks, keeps no gold in its modest headquarters at Basle, instead maintains deposits with the member banks, one of them the privately operated Bank of England. Goateed Montagu...