Word: moneyed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...greatest money-makers in the history of the theatre, the Gilbert & Sullivan operas today are finding new ways of striking gold. In Chicago an all-Negro Federal Theatre Mikado, set to swing, has the town by the ears. Last month Britain's G. & S. Films, Ltd. released The Mikado in Technicolor-the first full-length cinema version of a Gilbert & Sullivan opera in history...
...these up-&-coming pugilists are at least two years away from heavyweight championship calibre. In the meantime, in order to give customers their money's worth, one sportswriter suggested that Black-jack Joe take on all current contenders-Lou Nova, Max Baer, Bob Pastor, Tony Galento-in one evening, one at a time, like a barfly's dream...
Despite this heavy drain, the price of sterling remained steady-which was not surprising since England has lately taken far-reaching steps to bolster her money. First such step came three weeks ago when the British Government transferred at one fell swoop ?350,000,000 in gold from the Bank of England to the British Exchange Equalisation Fund, whose purpose is to control the price of sterling in the world's markets. This left the Bank of England in the weakest position in seven years, with gold holdings of ?223,000,000. At the old parity price...
...Pilgrim's 65-year-old President James Edwin Dann. In the 1890s, when he was a young laundry foreman, James Dann had an idea that decent labor standards would promote efficiency, even in the laundry business. When he met Edward Huff Bancker, an idealistic college graduate with some money, his idea became the Pilgrim Laundry, opened...
Foreign consumers met the difference in several ways-with U. S. money left in Europe by tourists, sent home by emigrants or paid to foreign shippers carrying U. S. goods. But the principal way they paid for goods was with gold, of which the U. S. now holds 60% of the world's monetary supply...