Word: golds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...short, Britain was edging close to bankruptcy. Without Marshall Plan aid, her position would soon be arithmetically hopeless. At Edinburgh last week, Cripps gave a somber summary: ". . . The whole future of our country really hangs in the balance. We have nothing to spare-no slack to take up. . . . The gold reserves of the sterling area are all that now stand between us and disaster...
...composer himself, who at 34 looks like an overworked undergraduate, will not be in the audience when the Met's gold curtains part this week. He will be off on a concert tour of Italy and Holland. A shy fellow, but sure of himself, Britten wasn't worried about how Peter Grimes would fare in Manhattan. Since London first heard Peter Grimes at Sadler's Wells in June 1945, it has been cheered 115 times, in Stockholm, Copenhagen, Milan, Berlin, Budapest, translated into eight languages, and praised in all of them...
...edge of the bank and the runner of my skeleton-that's just enough." An inch more and he would have crashed. Six times he made the descent of Cresta Run's spine-tingling ice path, to win an upset victory and Italy's one Olympic gold medal.* Average time: 5:23.2 (average speed: 42 m.p.h...
...France's curvaceous Georgette Thiellière-Miller, regarded as the world's best woman skier. But a flashy countryman of hers-Henri Oreiller, a 21-year-old sunburnt peasant boy from Val d'Isère-was the only person to win two gold medals in 1948's winter Olympics. He hurtled a snow-covered slope to win the men's downhill, and won the Alpine Combined event, too. Swedes kept grinding out victories-in the Pentathlon, the 10,000-meter speed skating, the 18-, 40-and 50-kilometer ski races. No U.S. skier...
American Eagle. The free market in gold in Paris was also opened last week with little fanfare, though the price of gold was skyhigh. Example: an old U.S. double eagle $20 gold piece was quoted at 18,000 francs, three times the value of a $20 bill. In effect, gold was selling for $60 an ounce...