Word: minting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...instructed the British mint, makers of Rumanian money, to stop work on the "King Mihai" series of which several million coins have been struck. The new Rumanian law of annulment (TIME, June 16) states that Carol's son Mihai was never King. As soon as possible busy Britains will start stamping "King Carol II" coins, printing "King Carol" postage stamps...
...offered to sell out and change sides for $3,000,000 Chinese silver dollars or $810,000 U. S. gold dollars. This may or may not have been true but it was significant. It lent special and peculiar point to the opening at Shanghai last week of "the greatest mint in the world...
...years the Chinese mint has been abuilding. Except for the Chinese inscriptions over the door it might be mistaken for the Treasury building at Washington. With a capacity of 40,000 coins per hour, it is said to surpass in speed all other mints whatsoever. Thus a rush order for 3,000,000 silver dollars to bribe a Chinese general could be turned out in 75 hours flat...
...word Kentucky connotes thoroughbred horses, Bourbon whiskey, hotheaded, white-headed Southern colonels drinking mint juleps before breakfast. In 1774 Kentucky meant a promised land of fabulous fertility, beyond almost impassable mountains, 500 miles from the outposts of civilization. Author Elizabeth Madox Roberts lifts the curtain from 150 years, shows you Kentucky as it was then...
...undue stretching of a doubtful point. The true education is free from affectation; the true "gentleman" may well be complete without a discerning palate and opportunity to indulge it. As usual, the point of view rests on a definition. If the word "gentleman" necessarily implies a connoisseurship in mint juleps and if education necessarily depends upon the softening of a certain consonant, it must be admitted that prohibition has handicapped the gentleman and that unpopularity is the inevitable corollary of a college training. An argument must rest upon a premise of generally accepted truth. If these are self-evident...