Word: lid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...order to keep the price below the point (about $1.40 per oz.) at which melting U.S. coins for their silver content becomes profitable. Last week, after the Treasury yielded to the rising demand on its own dwindling stocks by lifting the price lid after four years of control, silver exploded as the shining new commodity...
...When the lid came off, silver soared. At Manhattan's Commodity Exchange, a usually listless arena that deals in metals and hides, shirt-sleeved brokers shouted spot silver up to $1.775 per oz. on the first day. At midweek the price rose to $1.87 during one frenzied session when a record 16.25 million oz. worth nearly $30 million changed hands. At week's end the spot price closed at $1.8315, 42% above the dethroned Treasury price. The silver fever spread to the London Metal Exchange, where brokers planned to operate for the first time a formal futures market...
...Laredos' Bach was in the best Rosalyn Tureck tradition. Eschewing the harpsichord for the piano, Mrs. Laredo played lid up and with plenty of pedal. As a pianist myself I have nothing against treating the instrument as a full partner in chamber music rather than a subservient accompanist--in fact I welcome it. But the Laredos' Bach did have severe balance problems. Mr. Laredo very quickly demonstrated a full, rich tone and an easy command of dynamics on the violin. But he was more and more obliged to "force" in an attempt to hold his own against the superior string...
...Hashbury, grass can be had for $10 to $15 a "lid" (a one-ounce lot, capable of producing up to 40 joints); the finest variety is "Acapulco Gold" from Mexico, undiluted and selling for $1 a joint ($5 for a matchboxful that can produce about ten joints). Lately, hippie chemists have learned to synthesize THC, which seems to be the active mind changer in marijuana, in a complex 17-step operation. Their formula, says a Government chemist, is "crude but effective...
...years as a schoolmaster, I've been curing hiccups [June 2] in the schoolroom by frightening the sufferer. I suppose a visit to the operating table, or the introduction of a catheter, is as good for frightening the sufferer as is the bang of a desk lid. But why such sledgehammer methods to kill a flea of a complaint...