Word: goldings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...also keeps its export market alive through agents in South Africa, in the Portuguese colonies of Angola and Mozambique and in the black African nation of Malawi (see following story). The Rhodesian pound may have been declared worthless on world mar kets, but Rhodesian mines turn out enough gold to keep the country in international spending money...
...commuting executives are free to cuss, smoke cigars and relax in rumpled shirtsleeve comfort. For businessmen who do not want to relax, Braniff offered portable typewriters and Dictaphones. And for passengers with Klondike fever, Alaska Airlines was featuring Gay Nineties flights, replete with schooners of beer, red-velvet and gold-tassel cabin decor, stewardesses who wear ankle-length red-velvet skirts and sport 1890 hair styles, and in-flight announcements sung to Calamity Jane lyrics...
...deficits totaling $24 billion in its international accounts. And be cause the U.S. permits foreign countries to exchange their dollars for U.S. gold, the balance-of-payments deficit has severely eroded the U.S. gold stock. Today, in the unlikely event that all foreign governments decided to cash in all their dollars at the same time, the Treasury's $13.1 billion store of the precious yellow metal would simply disappear. Last week that unlikely possibility prompted the nation's two largest banks to call for some major changes in U.S. gold policy...
...over two centuries-was threatened by the Germans in World War I that the Danes agreed to transfer the islands to U.S. custody. On March 31, 1917, the U.S. took title to its new possession for the fire-sale price of $25 million, paid in nearly 48 tons of gold bullion...
With all their headaches, the islands have more than doubled their population since 1930. Each year settlers arrive by the hundreds and tourists by the hundreds of thousands-dumping more gold on the Virgins annually than it cost the U.S. to buy them in the first place...