Word: occured
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...difficult, inflation loomed. A Parliamentary Bullion Committee met, wanted to resume specie payments. But Vansittart urged the country to stay off the gold standard, insisted that public faith in the Government was enough to make paper money a satisfactory coin of the realm. His side won. Inflation did occur and the national economy limped along until 1819, when, with Vansittart's views in complete disfavor, the country returned to the gold standard with a sigh of relief...
Cortes sent one of his lieutenants to Taxco in 1522 to dig silver out of the Indians who were digging it out of the surrounding mountains. But Taxco's first big silver boom did not occur until 1717, when a very smart young man named Jose de la Borda came out from Spain to show his uncles how to mine silver at a fantastic profit...
Victims develop violent headaches, chills, fever, break out in bright red spots. Death may occur in three weeks. Dr. Topping's serum, which has saved about 20 patients so far, is not dramatic; it neither softens nor shortens the disease. The serum is made by infecting vaccinated rabbits with ground-up ticks, then drawing off their blood, which is rich in antibodies...
...tired of the perpetual Russian threat, and also of our inability to exploit Russian resources as completely as we would like. Short of military cooperation, Russia must occupy a position similar to that which Italy occupies now. Then the infiltration of our military experts and technicians would occur without any trouble. We would also know how to get guarantees that nothing would threaten us behind our backs if we were occupied elsewhere...
...public utility. . . . The sovereignty system is no longer consonant either with peace or justice. It is imperative that there be transition to a new order . . . for the present system is rapidly encompassing its own destruction. The real problem is not whether there will be transition, but whether transition can occur without violent and unnecessary destruction of moral and political conceptions . . . evolved under the guiding influence of Christianity." Lawyer Dulles' proposal was particularly newsworthy because he heads U.S. Protestantism's Commission to Study the Bases for a Just and Durable Peace...