Word: goldens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Just before the "golden" coins appeared, a Rumanian priest decided to buy the used Buick of the representative in Rumania of the Baldwin Locomotive Works. A bargain was struck. That evening the priest appeared, riding in a two-horse carriage. He had with him twelve huge gunny sacks stuffed to bursting with 20-lei Rumanian bills. It took until 2 a. m. to count them?after which the priest drove off in his Buick...
...Once a 20-lei bill was worth $3.86. Today it is worth 12 ¢. Last week, after the new "golden" coins were issued, a contractor called at the Bucharest City Hall to collect a bill for 200,000 (about...
...Certainly, sir," beamed the Civic Cashier. "There is your money!" It consisted of 28 sacks of "golden" coins weighing in all nearly a ton. Grumbling, the contractor took his money, carted it away in a motor truck...
...musicians playing in the Ensemble are: Dorothy Comstock, First Violin; Anna Golden, Viola; Robert Gunderson, Second Violin; and Jacobus Langendoen, Violoncello. They will be assisted by Putnam Aldrich on the Harpsichord...
...oldest (106) and most famed of U. S. civic celebrations. New Orleans' Mardi Gras Carnival is for local socialites a formal, exclusive occasion; for merchants and hotelmen, a golden harvest; for visitors and the man-in-the-street one good long party. Last week's party began six days before Ash Wednesday. Through packed streets lumbered float after gaudy float bearing the cinematic tableaux of the Krewe of Momus. Red, green, yellow and purple flares dimmed street lights, sent choking fumes up toward windows from which thousands of heads leaned. At the Municipal Auditorium the parade halted, maskers...