Word: golde
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...home. A six-month drought compels the peasants to mow down their stunted winter wheat and feed to the starving livestock. The Battaglia del Grano, the Wheat Battle, of 1938 is lost. Three-fourths of Italy's bread requirements will have to be bought abroad with "old, the gold wrung from meagre exports and the tourist trade, the gold earmarked for coal, oil, steel, copper, nickel, tin -for a thousand commodities Italy lacks and must have to swagger and grab and fight like a great power...
...stately white & gold ballroom of Buckingham Palace, accustomed to the stricter rhythms of military bands, last week reverberated to one of Britain's best bands, Bert Ambrose's Prince's Restaurant Orchestra. King George & Queen Elizabeth were entertaining some 1,000 "personal friends" at the Royal Derby Night Ball. Among the guests were Queen Mary, the Queen Mother, the Duke & Duchess of Kent, the Duke & Duchess of Gloucester, U. S. Ambassador Joseph P. & Mrs. Kennedy, Colonel & Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh. The King and othermale guests wore the court dress of tailcoat and knee breeches. Lone holdout...
...Last week, wearing clericals as seminarians do, Raymond Heintz turned in his last trip card to the cab company. Next week he is to be ordained. Pittsburgh taximen, 500 of whom planned to attend Father Heintz's first Mass, got up a fund, presented him with a fine gold chalice...
...year, this bumper crop can mean but one thing-low prices. In 1936, average price for cotton was 12.3? a bale; in 1935, 11.1?. Last week the spot price of cotton in New Orleans tumbled to 7.88?, lowest it has ever been in terms of the pre-New Deal gold dollar...
...swinging their picks, digging in with their shovels, working unasked during their lunch hour and overtime at night. Last week, after the flurry of activity was over, the story of it was finally told. In the rubble where they were digging, one of the men turned up a $20 gold piece. Another found a diamond stud. Coins, baubles, silverware were discovered-to an estimated value of $20,000 before the vein was worked out. The men were digging on a site that had been filled in with debris from the San Francisco fire-earthquake...