Word: gold
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With war-worried European nations anxious to stock their coffers with all the gold they can lay hands on, French police were especially chagrined last week, when, from under their very noses, bandits got away with $1,890,000 in gold, the largest haul in French criminal history. The gold, being shipped to a Belgian smelting plant from the Belgian Congo, was unceremoniously stowed aboard an ordinary freight train northbound from Marseille one night last week. Few miles outside the city, the train's emergency brakes were jammed on. As trainmen and guards swung down to investigate, six masked...
Meanwhile there was but little slackening in the flight of gold to the U. S., leading the New York Times to express a prime worry of monetary experts, what to do with it: "It is possible, of course, to sterilize the presence of gold, to keep it from forcing prices upward. . . . But nobody ever has found a way to sterilize the absence of gold. When a country [i. e., in Europe] has too little of the metal, its prices fall, bringing depression...
...relieve the depression it lowers the gold value of its currency. In its own currency, its prices may seem higher, but in gold, the international currency, they drop, exerting pressure on the international price structure. . . . The world has seen it happen again and again...
Although K. P. L. & G.'s application stressed the communities its new line would serve, the company hopes to find a pot of gold at the end of its modest rainbow. The extremity of the projected line will reach the Mesabi Iron Range, richest in the U. S., whose ores now go to the blast furnaces of Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania. However, Mesabi has also much low-grade ore which has not been considered worth shipping out for smelting. K. P. L. & G. hopes by bringing a low-priced fuel to the site of Mesabi's low-grade...
...Contract and Public Policy;" 2, "The English Gold Clause Cases;" 3, "Strict Liability and Culpa;" and 4, "Damages and Tort...