Word: golde
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Anyone who sold francs fortnight ago, buying another currency or gold (which is perfectly legal and easy in Paris or London), and then bought francs again last week made a similar "profit...
Honest, orthodox M. Daladier last week, took a handsome "profit" for the French Treasury at once. This profit, obtained by "revaluing" the gold stocks of the Bank of France and the exchange fund of the State, totaled 47 billion francs...
Having nothing that corresponds closely to either cinema's gold-plated statuette award (informally called "Oscar") or literature's, press's and theatre's Pulitzer Prizes, radio takes its annual laurels from the Women's National Radio Committee! This organization is affiliated with numerous women's clubs. The women awarded their gold microphone last week to NBC Blue network Sustaining Broadcaster George V. Denny Jr. and his America's Town Meeting...
...complimented for its original penetration into the budgetary set-up, which activity supplements the recent report on the promotions problem, the University is at the same time open to justifiable indictment for permitting the existence of one-sided academic scales. Its first move should be to pour enough gold onto the other side of the scales for a perfect balance. Evenness of distribution of funds based upon the number of concentrators in each field is obviously the only way in which Harvard can guarantee full teaching in departments now over-crowded. In another quarter century the trend to social sciences...
Public Service. A $500 gold medal was awarded to the Bismarck (N. Dak.) Tribune for its news reports and editorials which started a movement for self-help among victims of the dust bowl. To the Edmonton (Alberta) Journal went a special bronze plaque for leadership in defense of a free press in the Province of Alberta...