Word: gold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...anxiety over the veterans themselves, Congress did not forget the veterans' kin. One bill started the ball rolling on designs for a "Gold Star Lapel Button." Parents of men killed in World War II will get them free; brothers and sisters, at cost...
Change, no stranger to Claverly Hall, is again present in the old Gold Coast dormitory, which has seen 54 years of Harvard evolution. Workmen are placing twentieth-century steel beams along-side the one-time glistening mahogany walls, as they work to bolster up the sagging walls...
...last chance." It might end much of Labor's vague mismanagement. But by Attlee's own estimate, it could only carry Britain through the winter to face another, even bigger crisis in 1948. At that time, many observers believed, Britain would have to tap her last gold reserves and thus stand on the brink of national ruin...
Sculptor Haseltine's brilliant, blinkered devotion to animal subjects has made him tops in a narrow field. He has done prize pigs, sheep and dogs as well-some of them in 24-carat gold inlaid with precious gems-but horses are his forte, at a fee of $1,800 to $30,000 apiece. "I used to feel a bit put out," says Haseltine with a deprecating shrug, "when people referred to me as 'the horse-sculptor chap...
...Gold and dollar holdings of all foreign countries (except the Soviet Union), said the bank, now amount to $18 billion, up $4 billion over 1939. But a large part of this hoard is immobilized in private hoards or as currency reserves. And nations which need gold and dollars least hold the most. An example: liberated western Europe has less than half of its prewar stock of $5.4 billion. But well-fed, well-clothed Switzerland alone holds $1.4 billion of the Continent's hoard...