Word: goldens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gold, 1,300,000 oz. of silver, 37,000,000 Ib. of copper, 49,000,000 Ib. of zinc. Today with copper in world markets about 7? per Ib. and hard to sell at that, the great Whitney promotion market-wise has a somewhat golden appeal. With gold at $35 per oz. nearly one half of its revenues last year were in the yellow metal...
...happy Sunday, no one present cared to say. Sunday evening when the Sequoia docked at Annapolis, the President had nothing to say. Neither had Vice President Garner nor "General" Farley. Several hours later other members of the party got back to Washington, content but uncommunicative. One guest, breaking the golden silence on condition that he remain anonymous, confided that he had seen Secretary Ickes and Senator Tydings, arm-in-arm, laughing and jesting convivially...
...unconfirmed report said that farther upstream the City of Ichang (pop. 60,000) disappeared with a woosh, was "wiped out." But all this was merely the doing of the Yangtze ("Willow") River, sometimes called "The River of Golden Sand" by poets because of its yellow silt. Farther north the Hwangho or Yellow River, equally bilious in color, was re-earning last week its age-old nickname. "China's Sorrow." In 1854 the Hwangho. which had emptied for half a millennium into the Yellow Sea, arose in a flood so cataclysmic that it changed its entire course and now empties...
...that time, almost exactly parallel with Rembrandt's career, The Netherlands was entering its "Golden Age" under the able stadtholder. Frederick Henry of Orange-Nassau. And Amsterdam was the golden city of the Dutch. Their armies were the crack fighting force of Europe. Their sea captains were preparing to smash Spain, rival Britain. All about him Rem brandt saw a young nation of tradesmen, sailors and soldiers, the litter of trophies brought home from the Orient...
Died. Leopold Woelfling, 66, onetime Archduke Leopold Ferdinand of Austria, Grand Duke of Tuscany, Royal Prince of Hungary and Bohemia, Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece, Colonel of the Imperial & Royal Army of Austria-Hungary; of apoplexy; in Berlin. Archduke Leopold caused a sensation in 1903 by giving up titles, power and wealth to marry an actress (Vilma Adamovic), divorced her four years later when she became a nudist and vegetarian, married a servant girl (Marie Rirter), became by turns a cabaret entertainer, bartender, railway clerk, subscription canvasser, insurance agent, actor, doorman, domestic servant. He died in poverty...