Word: minting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...solve it. They must be crazy. Prospectors dig gold out of the ground, sell it to the Treasury, and they turn around and bury it in another hole in Kentucky and hire soldiers to guard it. ... A man should be able to take his ore down to the mint, get the Government to strike off the coins for him and keep the metal that rightfully belongs to him. There would be little or no paper money . . . and we would get rid of them germ-carrying dollar bills. There are 1,014 germs on every dollar bill. Silver and gold...
Announcing that the national defense tax, which has added one or two cents to the purchase price of some 40-odd items (notably cigarets, gasoline, liquor, cosmetics) since it became effective July 1, has drained all the pennies from the U. S. Mint, Superintendent Edwin H. Dressel explained: "We've shipped out millions of 'em, and if the demand keeps up, we'll have to throw all our resources on pennies, 24 hours...
...with the stumbling Chinese dollar, Council Chairman Cornell S. Franklin announced his intention of resigning. Cornell Franklin hails from Mississippi, home State of Author William Faulkner (who is married to Cornell Franklin's first wife). A good sport and a fighting gentleman, Cornell Franklin has transplanted the South-mint juleps, hunting dogs, polo, a white house with a proper portico-right to cosmopolitan Shanghai. He and his pretty second wife are tired of all this warrin' and ready for a little Reconstruction...
Last week the 5,114-ton Russian motor-ship Kim put into San Francisco from Vladivostok, unloaded $5,600,000 of gold bullion, sold it to the San Francisco mint. First gold shipped directly from Russia to the U. S. since 1937, it was a mere twentieth of the $101,900,000 of Russian gold bought by the U. S. (through other countries) in that time. Kim's arrival served Senator Vandenberg with occasion for lambasting the Administration's gold policy ("Folly ... we do not want the gold") on the floor of the Senate. But to newsmen...
Then he galloped through a foam-flecked drama of the range country calculated to make Autry votaries champ their Double Mint in double-quick time...