Word: golds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Socialists blasted the proposed law to set up a free market in gold. To Premier Schuman and Finance Minister Mayer, the free gold market was the lodestone that would draw hoarded gold and hidden assets from buried iron pots and foreign banks. This in turn would stimulate production and provide a stabilizing base for currency and foreign trade. To the Socialists, the 25% fine to be levied against hoarders was inadequate punishment for unpatriotic speculators...
...Bitter Pill. Less than ten hours later, the weary legislators returned to vote on the gold proposal. Premier Schuman staked his government's survival on the measure, gave the Socialists a clear choice. With the Communists and the Gaullists eagerly waiting for the coalition government to prove its incompetence to rule, the Socialists decided to stick with Schuman. Schuman's margin: a comfortable 98 votes...
...Also given the Lasker Award, $500 and a gold medallion: Manhattan's Dr. Richard N. Pierson (a Presbyterian and father of four), for organizing, in 1930, the medical committee of the old Birth Control League, other activities...
Treasure of Sierra Madre. Walter Huston, Humphrey Bogart and Tim Holt look for gold and find trouble in Director John Huston's brilliant adventure fable (TIME...
When three very different people go looking for gold together and find it, the ending generally will not be happy. "The Treasure of Sierra Madre" does end happily, but only after one of the characters has been killed and the gold returns to the earth. It is a theme with a number of rather obvious allegorical possibilities concerning the doings of both men and nations, and this unusual picture manages to hint at them painlessly, without verbosity or undue lengthiness...