Word: minting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Gangsters, holocausts, thunder-gusts and earthquakes were all provided against by the architects of San Francisco's new U. S. Mint. They never thought of kids. One evening last week Paul Francis and William Gallagher, each 15, walked past the massive four-story money fortress and remembered having read it was "impregnable...
...couple of Houdinis!"' ejaculated Peter J. Haggerty, superintendent of a mint now proven pregnable...
...mint where radio's catch phrases are coined, a busy worker is Adman Milton Harry Biow. In association with Arde Bulova some eight years ago he put the radio on Bulova Watch time. Three years later, for Philip Morris, he took Midget Johnny Roventini out of a hotel lobby, put his treble "Call for Philip Morris" on the air. After 20 years in advertising, the same 20 years in matrimony, intense, jittery Milton Biow boasts that his two loves remain his business, his wife...
...Bureau of the Mint avers that the Jefferson nickel, no matter what apparent distortion appears in photographs of the model, will be perfectly circular...
...about 3,000 men who carried pistols-most of whom were sorry pistol shots. So in 1935 Mr. Morgenthau instituted year-round pistol practice, taught by Coast Guard cracks, for all armed agents of his Customs Bureau, Alcohol Tax Unit, Bureau of Narcotics, White House Police, Bureau of the Mint, Secret Service, Bureau of Internal Revenue, Uniformed Force of the Secret Service, Public Health Service. He put up a handsome silver Morgenthau Trophy and several other prizes for annual competition...