Word: golds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Balance-of-Trade"-ratio of exports over imports-remained favorable. The export margin amounted, in merchandise, to some $731,000,000-about the same as in the last seven years. Gold exports, also, were heavy in 1928, in contrast to the heavy influx of gold in 1927. This indicated a general fortifying of the buying power of U.S. customers...
...only men but gold emigrates to Argentina, which, paradoxically, was named by exploring Spaniards after the silver (argenta) which they expected but failed to find in her mountains. Last year Argentina borrowed more U. S. dollars than any other nation. Most of them she spent on developing the low-lying, fertile Pampas and the highland grazing grounds of Patagonia (see Map). To her especial credit is the fact that Argentina also spends millions on schools and public works, and possesses today the most literate population in South America...
...personage with truly ecclesiastical majesty is the Cadillac-Fleetwood Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, Michael Angelical in dull reds, blues, greens, gold...
...Salle-Fisher Laughing Cavalier. Students of the Hals painting have provided it with hood and cowl of Wissahickon green; lower body, fenders and gear of deep maroon; wire wheels, rear deck and body above moulding of Talina brown; roof and rear quarters of tan Burbank silk mohair; mouldings of gold leaf...
Sharp contrasts are William H. Woodin, head of the American Locomotive Co., and Samuel M. Vauclain, head of the Baldwin Locomotive Works. Mr. Woodin has probably the finest collection of American gold pieces in the world, has written authoritatively on numismatics. A collector of rare books, he especially prizes a volume which contains signatures of most of the Popes of Rome. A present hobby is the collection of originals of newspaper cartoons. Mr. Woodin plays little golf; seldom uses his costly yacht. He is a graduate of Columbia (school of mines, 1890) and an Alpha Delta Phi, was Fuel Administrator...