Word: gold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Abbot of Bazinham once computed that in the first thousand years after Charlemagne, French currency was devalued 40 times. In the 19th century, the gold franc was such a rock that the currencies of half Europe were pegged to it. Lately, though officially pegged since 1949 at 350 to the dollar, the franc has fallen almost as often as French governments. Last week at long last the French government took notice of the franc's real worth and, without using the horrid word devaluation, in fact devalued...
...long way from Sunnybrook Farm, black-haired, 29-year-old Shirley Temple, who squeezed coos and clucks from the moviegoing world as the gold-topped cinemoppet of the '30s, announced that she would end an eight-year retirement from show business, seek ohs and ahs as the narrator and sometime star of a series of TV fairy tales. Tryout audience for her stories of dragons and derring-do: her children Susan 9, Charles 5, and Lori...
...cries of crass commercialism fail to shake Bride and Groom. The show pulls 500 letters a day from young women eager to fit out the new home with such goodies as live chinchillas and gold mines in Montana. Bride and Groom has supervised the weddings of some 2,500 couples to whom about 1,000 children have been born. The happy couples have included a Douglas Aircraft executive, two Medal of Honor winners, All-America athletes, an atom physicist, Phi Beta Kappas, a TV producer and Jinx Falkenburg's brother. To each of them went about $2,500 worth...
Without Transfusions. In the past 18 months, said Gaillard, France has exhausted its $1.1 billion Stabilization Fund and run through its $500 million European Payments Union loan; the $300 million advanced a month ago from the Bank of France's precious gold reserves "will not last beyond the end of September." For the first time since World War II France can no longer count on generous transfusions ($5.5 billions in U.S. aid since...
...little to do with the nation's need." As the old soldier thundered on, a small stockholder, Mrs. David Davis, miffed because Sperry Rand had not passed out refreshments ("Other companies give you sandwiches and cold drinks''), stopped him in mid-charge, earned herself some solid-gold applause: "I love my country. I love to pay taxes. And I've waited an hour and 15 minutes to hear about Sperry Rand and dividends." Chairman MacArthur's report: both...