Word: golds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...through the low-hanging fog to the point where hundreds of workmen were converging on the Star & Crescent ferry slip, ready to ride to their Navy shipyard jobs on North Island. "I'm Pat Brown!" cried Candidate Brown, reaching for workmen's hands as if they were gold nuggets. One, two, three workmen hurried past, heads down, clutching their lunch boxes, leaving Pat's hand dangling in midair. A ferry attendant came up, told...
...Union. In its infinite variety, in professionally sophisticated San Francisco and professionally unsophisticated Los Angeles, in the big cotton growers of the Imperial and San Joaquin valleys and the lettuce growers of the Salinas Valley, in Okies and Arkies come to suburban prosperity, in oil drillers and gold diggers and pensioners and professors, California provides a political spectrum that can cast its colors nationwide...
...Francisco's "Western Addition," then a middle-class section of narrow homes with stained-glass windows and Victorian gingerbread, now part of the city's expanding Negro community. Pat's father, Edmund Joseph Brown, was a trim, likable man, given to fancy gold watch chains, aromatic cigars and second-best poker hands...
...Gold and dollar reserves slipped $28 million from the 1956 level, but the money went for vital purchases: U.S. corn to offset the effects of a drought and refined petroleum products...
...GOLD OUTFLOW from U.S. in 1958 has topped $1.76 billion, more than any full-year drop in nation's history. Movement is caused by recent recession, slump in exports, investors' flight from dollar...