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...authority, a Treasury official, claimed that "something happened this year" and added that Harvard must be classified as a "penny area." To combat the deficiency, the Treasury has started to mint earlier than usual...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Disappearing Pennies Force Early Minting | 5/25/1956 | See Source »

...cabinet, the new state would boast perhaps the best Department of Health, Education, and Welfare known. John Finley could head the Department of Labor and Steve Aaron would become curator of a Bureau of National Culture. The mint would present some problems, since a new currency would be necessary. A picture of Dean Bundy, however, could adorn the one dollar bill, Master Perkins the five, and John R. Thompson on the hundred. The thousand would remain bland until someone donates a new theatre. The revenue problem would be solved by a toll road on Mass. Avenue, a sales...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mr. Vellucci's Gauntlet | 5/14/1956 | See Source »

...over 81 momentous years. All week long, post office trucks had brought a mountain of greetings and gifts to Sir Winston. A special messenger, U.S. Ambassador Winthrop W. Aldrich, had personally delivered a birthday present from Dwight Eisenhower: a three-inch gold medallion, struck off in the U.S. Mint, bearing a likeness of Churchill taken from Ike's own portrait of him. On its opposite side, a citation flanked a design of clasped hands between British and U.S. shields: "Presented . . . on behalf of his millions of admiring friends in the United States for leadership and in recognition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People | 12/12/1955 | See Source »

...morale has taken a beating, the Trib has advanced on other fronts. Sports and financial coverage have been expanded. Weekday editions have been dressed up with an eye-catching, mint-green "third section" containing the features, sports and comics as part of a plan to compartmentalize the news for easier reading. By relying more heavily on wire-service coverage of top stories, e.g., last month's "wolf whistle" murder trial in Mississippi, the Trib has saved money, expanded features and local news coverage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Trials of the Trib | 10/10/1955 | See Source »

Contact. In Montevideo, Uruguay, Alberico Averardo Cruzado, 25, was fired from his job as prison warden after he learned from a convict how to mint coins without silver, went into a short-lived but thriving counterfeiting business with his mother, sister and childhood friend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 19, 1955 | 9/19/1955 | See Source »

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