Word: golde
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...avoid possible misunderstanding of the subject of his canvas . . . Albert Gold titled it The Enormous Egg Beater" (TIME, June 20, p. 23). Is this hoax or surrealism? The title might better have been The Useless Egg Beater. Look at tops and bottoms of the blades. At the bottom they cross, the outer blade inside the other. An attempt to turn the wheel would reveal them hopelessly fouling one another...
...buys with internationally exchangeable dollars twice as much from Brazil as Brazil buys from the U. S. Coffee accounts for about 80% of Brazilian exports to the U. S. Later, however, the U. S. discovered another powerful trade persuader. In 1937 the U. S. agreed to sell to Brazil gold up to a value of $60,000,000 to steady Brazilian exchange. Also helpful to U. S.-Brazilian trade was a joint commission suggested by President Roosevelt on his 1936 South American trip, formed last February of Brazilian and U. S. business...
...Germany 1) tried to flood Brazil with compensated marks so that Brazil would be forced to buy more German merchandise, 2) tried to produce a temporary world scarcity, thereby raising the price of cocoa so that she could profitably resell her cocoa holdings to other nations for much-needed gold...
...Index stood at 150, Franklin Roosevelt again sounded off on commodity prices, declared that with certain exceptions such as building materials they were again too low, should go up. This time, however, the Presidential edict seemed to have lost its magic. Despite renewed inflation in the form of desterilized gold and relaxed bank reserve requirements, commodity prices on June i reached the lowest point since 1934-130 on Moody's Index...
...year in prison. Republican officials permitted him, however, to outfit his cell as a library, and Maurras continued to turn out an ever more venomous two-column daily tirade against the Government. Marking the anniversary of his imprisonment, fellow Royalists presented him with a "civic crown" of beaten gold...