Word: gold
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Calfee led the way for the Gold Coasters with four field goals, while Goodwin looked good for the Funsters by virtue of six goals and one foul. The mainstay of the Deacons was Baggerly who scored ten points, and Murphy of the Bellboys took high scoring honors for the day with eight two pointers...
...left in the Loyalist Army. 150,000 were expected to reach France and safety, 50,000 would probably be captured or surrender before they got there. The refugees, interned in concentration camps, had their board bills guaranteed by the Loyalist Government, which still has gold...
Part of this huge defense expense may be met through a "profit" which the Government last week arranged to obtain by revaluing its gold. Introduced by Sir John Simon in the House of Commons was a bill to allow the Government to revalue each week, at the current market price, the gold holdings of the Bank of England. Since Britain went off the gold standard in 1931 this gold has been carried at the old parity of 855. per ounce. Gold was last week selling at 148½. per ounce in the open market. At the old figure the Bank...
...trouble. Again he went on trial in Manhattan for using the mails to defraud. According to Assistant U. S. Attorney Leo Fennelly, who has helped run down many a noted swindler (including Banker Joseph Harriman), Promoter Bob had sunk so low he had taken to selling gold bricks. In 1932 he acquired Bankers Service Co., which was founded in 1908 to solicit accounts for savings banks and which he turned to investment counseling. Its chief counsel, according to the charge, was to advise suckers to switch their investments to two virtually defunct gold mines Promoter Bob owned. In Coronado Gold...
Foreign consumers met the difference in several ways-with U. S. money left in Europe by tourists, sent home by emigrants or paid to foreign shippers carrying U. S. goods. But the principal way they paid for goods was with gold, of which the U. S. now holds 60% of the world's monetary supply...