Word: polishing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Same day the Polish gold arrived, Paris experts announced they had totted up what they thought was a fair estimate of Soviet Russia's gold reserve. Before World War I Russia ranked fourth among the gold-producing countries of the world. She has vast deposits in the Ural and Caucasus and in Siberia. But according to the Paris experts, the dust has not been panning out the way it should have. As a "considerable over-estimate," the Frenchmen thought the Soviet might have in ready gold 21,000,000 ounces ($760,000,000)-only four times as much...
...Pomorze (the Polish Corridor), Posen and Polish Upper Silesia, provinces which belonged to Germany before the Treaty of Versailles, will become integral parts of the Greater Reich...
...Czestochowa, famous for its Black Madonna shrine, and Cracow, where the Polish kings are buried, will be allowed to remain in the buffer State as a mark of German respect for Polish religious and patriotic feelings...
...Syria; after traveling to France on a French naval vessel-after these weary wanderings a symbol arrived in Paris last week. It was solid and rare-gold in bars to the value of $80,000,000. But its real value was as a symbol of the solvency of the Polish Government, whose reconstituted Cabinet received the treasure in Paris. The Cabinet announced to the world that not an ounce of the gold would go for the Government's current expenses, but all of it would lie in reserve for restoration of a Polish currency after the restoration...
...Poland Earle stayed at Ambassador Biddle's estate, which was rented from the Polish Ambassador in America, Count Potocki. Just two weeks after he left the estate the Russians entered this district. All the large estates were divided up and the land given to the peasants. Earle was in lots of air-raids. "My most scary moment," he says, "was the night we spent on the 'Washington' at Le Havre before sailing. We noticed that afternoon that about 100 yards from where the boat was lying on the dock, there was a small island with about 100 large oil tanks...