Word: gold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rheingold! Rarest gold...
Return the gold, O return the pure gold...
...Russians last week wailed like so many wronged Rhine nymphs. The Central State Pawnshop of the Soviet Purchasing Commission had bought gold bullion in Berlin-50 million marks' worth of nice, shiny gold for the depleted Soviet treasury. Last week, a frantic message came from Moscow: the gold was phony! Investigation showed that Germans (among them many D.P.s) had operated an illegal smelter in Berlin, casting a base alloy with a thin gold coating into small "gold" bricks. This week, the Russian assayers who had permitted themselves to be fooled were in jail...
...Russians could take some small comfort from the fact that the German alchemists had not made out as well as it seemed. They had sold the "gold" on credit, and the Russians had fallen far behind with their payments...
Linda Darnell celebrated quitting time on Forever Amber by handing goodies around to her fellow workers-a diamond-&-sapphire ring to Director Otto Preminger, a gold wristwatch (with diamonds) to her wardrobe girl, a gold money clip (in the shape of a folding chair, with his name on it in diamonds) to her cameraman, and a round-trip ticket to Honolulu to her hairdresser. Now, said Miss Darnell, she had had enough work. In four years, she explained, she and her busy cameraman-husband, Peverell Marley, had spent only three days together, and it had nearly broken up their marriage...