Word: metalic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...devoted exclusively to the commercial fertilizer industry; "La Hacienda", published for the purpose of disseminating practical knowledge on agriculture, live stock and commerce to Spanish and Portuguese countries; "Postage", which furnishes information as to direct mail advertising, and "The Waste Trade Journal" intended to keep the trade in metal and textile wastes in touch with market news and prices...
...system was then seriously endangered; now it is tremendously strong, its ratio of gold to notes and deposits being at present 75.8% and 79% for the New York Bank. Yet we now have too much gold for our own good, and much of our present stock of the yellow metal should be re-exported as soon as circumstances will allow, lest either lack of financial foresight or uneconomic legislation bring on another unsound inflation of American credit...
...Spaniards, the Indian goldsmiths of Oaxaca were perhaps unsurpassed by any in the world. Many other tribes from Mexico to Chile were also expert workers. They were proficient in the arts of casting, hammering, and embossing gold, silver, and copper, and had perfected the art of plating the baser metal with pure gold...
...moment for our eyes to adjust themselves in the dim light. Then all at once we discovered, in a standing posture, leaning against the wall, a human skeleton. His hands were upraised grasping a rope of twisted bark. Far above, in the shadows, we could make out the metal of a huge bell. The clapper, which had fallen to the floor, was worn with long usage...
...neglected to mention that the advance party brought back from the university several pocket-fuls of curious metal disks and tiny images, much in the nature of watch-charms. Senor Alvarotez is at work on defining them, and I hope to have a definite report to give your readers in my next letter. Cordially yours. J. BLAIR-DUNCAN...