Word: golds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Second, for London: U. S. loans to Australia help sterling to maintain itself at par, for when dollars flow outward towards the Antipodes gold sovereigns may hold the fort in London City...
...federation of six States composing the Commonwealth of Australia, created Jan. 1, 1901. It occupies the north-east quarter of the continent. Captain Cook discovered it in 1770. Forests cover half its surface. Its chief source of wealth is in minerals; gold, silver, copper, tin, lead, tungsten, and coal are mined...
Last week the Paris-Orleans Railroad Company sold $10,750,000 worth of 5½% external sinking fund gold bonds through a banking syndicate composed of A. Iselin & Co., Brown Brothers & Co., Halsey, Stuart & Co., Hemphill, Noyes & Co. and Wood, Gundy & Co. Few financial theorists in the U. S. reflected sentimentally that this was the railroad that carried U. S. soldiers from Bordeaux or Brest to battle. But all financial theorists did reflect deeply upon that interest rate...
...reported that girls who work in Kresge Stores took a frank and unwholesome delight in the misfortunes of their "boss;" that it pleased them to know that the man whose name was painted with spotless gold upon a thousand red facades, whose fame for righteousness and reformation was as large as his fame for wealth, was after all no better than themselves; mayhap, not even as good. A year and a half ago, Kresge wrote to Senator James Couzens, asking him for a $1,000 contribution to a girl's home. With a larger check, the senator sent Kresge...
...whom it would be given. Most of them were distinguished Philadelphians, including the giver of the prize, Edward W. Bok, onetime editor of the Ladies Home Journal; a few looked with hope and excitement at the ivory casket, which stood on the speaker's stand, containing a gold medal, a scroll and a check for $10,000. Pierre Monteux conducted the Philadelphian orchestra in the absence of its regular leader, Leopold Stokowski, a onetime winner of the Bok Prize. The other winners were all present except for the late Dr. Russel H. Conwell ("Acres of Diamonds") ; there was Samuel...