Word: goldings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even if the South Africans do so, Swiss bankers last week insisted that they can challenge London's long supremacy in the market. Their customers siphoned off some $2 billion worth of gold from London between the mid-November devaluation of the pound and the mid-March closing of the gold pool, when the U.S. and six other countries stopped selling gold to the private market. That huge supply, equal to about two years' South African output, must remain the key source of bullion for free-gold trading for some time...
Swiss Pool. The three largest Swiss banks-Credit Suisse, Union Bank of Switzerland and Swiss Bank Corp.-have formed a joint gold pool to share purchases, sales and profits. In place of the London dealers' twice-daily meetings (10:30 a.m. and 3 p.m.) to fix the price of gold, the Swiss-bank traders confer about prices every few minutes throughout the day over direct phone lines. Instead of collecting a commission, the Swiss charge buyers of gold more than they pay sellers. That "spread" started out as high as $3 per oz. in the first days after...
...rivals even went so far as to test the strength of London gold supplies directly. Convinced one day that the London dealers had fixed their price too low, the Swiss banks ordered 21 tons of bullion, found London able to supply only 60% of the order...
...know what he looks like-and they want him expunged. As just the man for the job, Eberlin winds up with the unenviable assignment of tracking down and killing himself in Berlin, when all he wearily wants to be is the spy who came in from the gold...
...affair was billed as a "First Ladies Luncheon." Seated at more than 62 tables in the sumptuous red-gold-blue Grand Ballroom were prominent doctors, musicians, presidents of department stores, architects, and lawyers, ambassadors and ambassadors' wives, wives of governors, women housing commissioners, women officials in local, state, and federal government, women in life insurance, women in publishing, and the first woman member of the New York Stock Exchange. There were elegant ones, and dowdy ones, and young ones, and black ones, and behatted ones. The ladies were fed on seagull soup, delicate chicken breasts with green noodles and pickled...