Word: olds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Many an old-sized bill will be saved as a souvenir. Many an old-sized bill has been lost or inadvertently destroyed. From past experience, Treasury officials informally estimate that the U. S. will "profit" by some $100,000,000 on the exchange...
With a two-thirds quorum already chosen, the Board was ready to organize. Its first duty was to get itself squared away in Washington. Looking for possible office space, inspectors went through the old Southern R. R. building, at Pennsylvania Avenue and 13th Street, lately acquired by the U. S. Secretaries, assistants, experts, clerks-the large personnel of bureaucracy -had to be hired, set to work...
...Sibley Warehouse reposed between 3,000 and 4,000 barrels, 50,000 cases of ten-and twelve-year-old Bourbon. Protecting it were 31, government gaugers and storekeepers. Some 250 dry agents could come and go in the warehouse premises. Craftily, more than 500 barrels, 2,000 cases were tapped, their fuming contents siphoned out. Back inside was poured a concoction of colored water and alcohol which would show the proper proof to deceive gaugers but which even a "sick" person would never mistake for old whiskey. For a year these illegal extractions at Sibley Warehouse had been in progress...
Died. Georges Landoy, editor of Matin of Antwerp, Belgium; in Yellowstone National Park, Wyo. Touring the U. S. with a party of European journalists (guests of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace), waiting to see Old Faithful Geyser spout, he, too near the Castle Geyser just as it spouted, was fatally scalded...
Died. Edward Walter Eberle, 64, rear admiral, native of Texas, onetime Commander-in-Chief of the U. S. Fleet; in Washington, D. C.; of an old infection in his right ear. Rear Admiral Eberle was a lieutenant on the Oregon on its dash around the Horn (1898), had charge of its forward turret at the battle of Santiago...