Word: gold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Poor Listener. With the Vizier out of touch, the Sultan gave in. Shortly before dawn next day, light tanks and armored cars converged on the palace. Squads of police materialized on street corners; troops lined the roads to the airport. At 7 a.m. the Sultan, leaning heavily on a gold-headed cane, his eyes veiled behind dark glasses, emerged from his palace for only the third and last time in his unhappy two-year reign (on both previous occasions, someone had tried to assassinate...
...melon smile had amassed an empire which controlled one-sixth of all Indian industry, ranged from banks to coal mines, insurance companies to newspaper chains. Son of rich parents who had lost their money, he says he made his first killing before he was 19 by cornering the Bombay gold bullion market. By 1937 he had made and lost three fortunes in speculations and won a hold on a cement factory, the foundation of an industrial empire that burgeoned mightily during the war. "During the war years, I earned money through sinful ways," he confessed later...
...Gold Idols. Despite his philanthropic precautions, Dalmia's wartime tax evasion cost him a reported $2,000,000 in settlement. The government suspected worse but could not readily prove it, because Indian financiers notoriously keep three sets of books-one for the tax inspectors, one for their partners, one for themselves. Two years ago, police descended on Dalmia's offices and houses and seized all the records they could find...
...took months to analyze them. Last week, on orders from Nehru himself, a squad of policemen swept up to Dalmia's white-pillared house in New Delhi. Dalmia, clutching two small gold idols, was carted off to jail while the house resounded to the piercing wails of his wives. The charge against one of the world's richest men: embezzlement of $4,200,000-worth of government bonds from his own Bharat Insurance Co., keystone of his empire...
Established in 1902 by the late William H. Nichols, a founder of the American Chemical Society, the gold medal is awarded annually to stimulate original research...