Word: gold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...make sure that Canadian steel will be fully used in essential industry, the Government slapped heavy excise taxes on domestically made steel and auto parts. The only segment of Canadian industry that found the financial medicine palatable was the gold-mining business. Since gold is instantly convertible into U.S. dollars, the Government decreed a bonus of $7 an ounce for gold producers...
...rock crystal Easter egg rimmed with diamonds and topped with a rare 27-carat Siberian emerald. By twisting the emerald and peeking into the egg, the Czarina could see twelve gold-framed miniatures of her favorite palaces, radiating from a thin gold axis...
...oval gold snuffbox with a cameo sea scene on its lid, framed by 50 large diamonds...
...world globe of topaz on a solid gold base...
Erleigh bought control of the New Union Goldfields Ltd., fixed his attention on the undeveloped Orange Free State, where he bought hundreds of leases and options on mining lands, including the fabulous Rooder and Main Reef Mines. The big money rolled in when other gold houses awoke to the richness of the Free State deposits and had to lease from Erleigh (TIME, April 29, 1946). Erleigh built up a South African empire of 152 companies-gold mines, diamond fields, coal mines, rubber factories, hotels and cinemas-valued at some...