Word: golds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pierre Dupong was fidgety. Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak was poised but gloomy as he gazed at an ornate gold clock on the wall which had stopped at 5 minutes past 2 nobody knew how long ago. The Berlin crisis had reminded everyone that it was later than they had thought...
Less cheerful but more typical of what was happening to Britain's "last chance" empire was a recent scene in the slums of Accra, Gold Coast colony. A young native sprawled sullenly in the shade of a tin-roofed shack, cluttered with goats, baskets, buckets and children. Out of the dry dusty litter a pigeon loft reared up ten feet into the hot air. "I fight in war," said the young native. "I discharged. Money gone. No work. No go back up country." He slumped farther back in the shade of the pigeon loft. Said a white colonial official...
...must to all nations, the postwar problem of living within its means last week caught up with Mexico. Mexico's postwar hoard of $350 million in gold and foreign exchange had dwindled to $114 million. Furthermore, it was a state secret whether this was usable or whether it included the necessary backing for the nation's currency. Overnight, the peso, which for eight years had been exchangeable at 4.85 to the dollar, was cut adrift. In shops, the prices of imported goods which Mexico could no longer afford were boosted from...
...went on buying sprees. The foreign credit manager of one bank arrived at his office late to find careless clerks doling out precious dollars at the old rate. In the Calle Isabel la Catolica, flooded by recent rains, money changers stood shin deep in water, clinking handfuls of gold coins and arguing prices. They offered six and seven pesos for a dollar and readily went higher. Anxious travelers and others who urgently needed dollars paid 10, 12, and even...
...around 1913 by the long "forgotten" U.S. composer who is a recluse in Connecticut, this sonata, has been called "the greatest music composed by an American," which is neither true nor saying so much as it seems to. Listeners will find it hard digging at first, but there is gold there. The performance is better than the dull recording...