Word: minting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Leipzig is a once proud city that has taken on that East German dullness, but last week its streets were brightened by mint green Mercedeses and sapphire Jaguars as Western businessmen got together with potential Communist customers. At the annual Leipzig fall trade fair, cognac and Scotch flowed freely in the displays set up by 1,600 capitalist companies. The wares of only two U.S. outfits were visible-Sunkist Growers and W. S. Hall, a Manhattan book handler-but there were more non-Communist exhibits than last year...
...When the mint needs money-that's news. Not news that U.S. Mint Director Eva B. Adams wants to shout from the housetops; she fears that too much publicity about a coin shortage may make matters worse by encouraging hoarding. But in fact, pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters and half dollars are all in short supply, though the mints in Denver and Philadelphia are working around the clock to plink them out, and the American Bankers Association has requested its 13,125 member banks to poke around in their vaults for any stockpiled coins that could be put into circulation...
Another basic low-priced item in any U.S. coin collection is proof sets-packets of specially polished samples of the half dollar, quarter, dime, nickel and penny sold by the U.S. mint for $2.10. About 200,000 of the proof sets for 1960 had a smaller-than-average zero in the date on the penny, and the price for these has bounced within the past few weeks from...
...Gilbert has a farther-reaching argument in favor of continuing his fight to keep the firemen on the diesels: "We can never forget that we are representing human beings, and that management is representing money. There is a big difference. You can always mint more money. But you can't mint new lives...
...during the month-long test, a doctor swam down from the mother ship Calypso, which hovered overhead, and checked the villagers' health. Cousteau himself stayed topside on the Calypso most of the time. At the end of the month, he said, all of the men came up in mint condition...