Word: goldings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Elke Sommer have locked up star billing in House of Seven Joys, Columbia's new Matt Helm thriller. Yet one supporting role is sure to set the audience buzzing. That's when an aide informs the President that thieves have made off with $1 billion in gold bullion. And there's old L.B.J. listening to the bad news. Old who? Well, it's not quite the boss himself, folks. It's his cousin. To play the President, Central Casting tapped J. B. Peck, 66, retired sheriff of Garland, Texas, and L.B.J.'s somewhat look...
During the height of its monetary crisis last March, the U.S. lost some $1.2 billion worth of gold, the biggest outflow ever in one month. Since then, the situation has eased. In April, the nation's gold loss dropped to $156 million, in May to $79 million. Last week came the most encouraging word yet. During June, the Treasury Department announced, the U.S. enjoyed a net inflow of $213 million worth of gold, the biggest single increase in the nation's bullion reserves in more than four years and the first monthly gain of any kind since last...
...easing of the gold drain can be partially attributed to the success of the four-month-old "two-tier" price system. Under that arrangement, the U.S. now sells bullion at the official $35-per-ounce price only to foreign central banks, thus forcing private speculators to purchase gold on the open market. Gold fever has also been dampened by the fact that France is no longer in a position to cash in dollars for U.S. gold. On the contrary, a good part of the gold that has flowed into the U.S. comes from France, which has been forced...
Successively, he became involved as an investigator of graft in Hyderabad (he nailed the grafters), in the promotion of a machine to extract gold from low-grade ore (it did not work well), the colonization of Kenya (he fell into an elephant trap), lobbying for a gold-silver currency standard (it was not adopted), and the hawking of a patent disinfectant called Electrozone. If his promotion was good, his financing was inadequate, and if both were good, someone cheated him out of his commission. He borrowed from his brothers, his friends, their friends and his children, and lectured his nephew...
Harvard does not enter the IRA because it falls on the same day as the traditional Harvard-Yale race, but Penn had entered the race with two new members in their boat, one of whom was a Pan American Games Gold Metal winner. According to the article, Penn was a new team...