Word: golds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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gasoline 7? (gold) a gallon
...immense numbers of Brazilians have actually gotten rich quickly-has not stabilized the national character or promoted the development of a pioneer class, so needed to develop Brazil's boundless resources. At first it was too easy to make a fortune out of sugar, then cacao, then cotton, gold, diamonds, rubber. When the rubber boom was raging up and down the Amazon (circa 1900) the rubber taxes collected by the states of Para and Amazonas (see Map) made their capitals, Belem, and Manaos, two of the richest cities of their size in the world...
...finance its purchase, I. T. & T. announced an issue of $57,300,000 ten-year, 4½% gold debenture bonds, convertible after July 1, 1929, into I. T. & T. common stock. Heading the banking syndicate will be, of course, I. T. & T.'s early friend and first banker, the great house of J. P. Morgan...
...famed National Biscuit products was added Shredded Wheat. Holders of Shredded Wheat stock will be offered one share of National Biscuit for two shares of Shredded Wheat. Shredded Wheat had been for some time a rumor centre, one story being that the breakfast food company would be acquired by Gold Dust Corp...
...Friday, Sept. 24, 1869, when Jim Fisk and Jay Gould tried cornering the gold market...