Word: gold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When I was a freshman I organized the Cambridge Serenaders, which later became the Gold Coast Orchestra. I played saxophone in the band for four years, and even did some arranging...
...Shenandoah Valley glowed in autumn gold and scarlet last week. Virginia's venerable Senator Harry Flood Byrd puffed through a restless routine. Each morning Byrd, now 70, hurried out to the apple orchards around his home at Berryville, supervised the harvest. But each afternoon the Senator settled down at his telephone to pass out political orders that crisscrossed Virginia in anticipation of a different sort of harvest. On Nov. 5 the Old Dominion elects a governor. When it does, the organization through which Harry Byrd has ruled his state for more than a quarter-century expects to reap enough...
...class of '26) donated $615,000. The library, which has 153,000 books, is also outfitted with a special Crosbyana Room. It has wall-to-wall carpeting and glass showcases for Bing's Oscar (for Going My Way in 1944), photographs, citations, old scrapbooks and the 20 gold platters for recordings that sold more than a million copies...
...first time in eight months Britain's pound was able to look the U.S. dollar in the eye last week. In London, Zurich, New York, Tokyo, wherever money is exchanged, the pound fetched its full par value of $2.80, halting the heavy drain on Britain's gold and dollar reserves and all talk of imminent devaluation. The renewed confidence in the pound was the result of a tough new policy of boosting Britain's bank rate from 5% to 7%, thus tightening up the money supply to curb runaway home-front inflation...
...King George I: "Here on English soil stood an unprepossessing figure, an obstinate and humdrum German martinet with dull brains and coarse tastes." When he describes combat, which is a good deal of the time, his ardent prose is apt to be high-flown: "The lure of gold and the sting of Cadiz inspired the leaders, and at last they let loose their brave men, who fought with indomitable fury...