Word: gold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Russian athletes had a high old time. Every morning they trained for the pre-Olympic track meet at London's White City Stadium. There was steak for breakfast, baskets of fruit, great bowls of yoghurt. There was also time for sightseeing, movies (Cinerama Holiday, Charlie Chaplin in The Gold Rush) and, best of all, shopping...
Shopping meant bargain hunting, for the visitors had only ?5 (about $14) pocket money apiece. Discus Thrower Nina Ponomaryeva, 27, a Russian gold-medal winner at the 1952 Olympics, cased the shop windows along Oxford Street with an eager eye, for Nina always tried to make the most of her bulky (185 Ibs.) charms. Like her movie namesake, Ninotchka, she was fascinated by bourgeois hats. The cut-rate merchandise at C. & A. Modes, Ltd. seemed just what she wanted: among the 305. felt flowerpots, the cheap berets, the fluffy wool stocking caps there must be a creation that would...
...shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns," thundered William Jennings Bryan at the end of the peroration that won him the Democratic presidential nomination in 1896. "You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold." In the most famed speech ever made in the U.S. on money, silver-tongued Bryan pounded home a 24-carat political fantasy: the bigger the money supply, the more for everyone. Bryan's particular panacea, a switch from gold to silver as the basis for an expanded currency, was discredited after his defeat by Republican William McKinley...
...Next Door. Bill Martin is a boyish, ruddy-cheeked, rangy (5 ft. 11 in.) man, with greying brown hair and good-humored eyes behind gold-rimmed glasses. Looking, as one longtime friend remarked recently, like "the boy next door-35 years later," he has turned the Fed, after a ten-year interlude (1941-51) as a puppet of the Treasury, back into an independent and effective custodian of the nation's money. Republican officials sometimes question Democrat Martin's judgment, notably after he boosted the discount rate last spring, at a time when many experts thought that...
Tobacco Money. A realist who knows his history, Martin is well aware that he could overnight become the scapegoat of slump. In the crisis-stained chronicles of U.S. finance, bankers have been crucified on crosses of gold, silver, paper and every other substance used to back currency. From early colonial days, when they had to ship scarce gold and silver abroad to pay for imports, Americans chronically lacked sufficient backing for stable money. Virginia in the 17th century used tobacco for money (top-grade weed was worth 3$. a lb.), but was plunged into inflation by citizens' cash crops...