Word: pound
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Extension of the President's power to reset the gold content of the dollar as low as 50% of its old value (present value 59?). The Administration has not used this power, has no present plans for using it except in some emergency if the pound sterling and the franc should collapse. The Senate proposed to let this power (a threat of inflation) expire-in effect, to take it back into the hands of Congress until it is again needed...
Last week the Department of Agriculture, having canvassed hog-farmers in its semiannual survey, announced its best guess for 1939: a six-year record of about 83,000,000. Three days after the estimate was announced, July lard futures fell to 5.7? per pound, a five-year low. Average hog prices in Chicago, which last month hit a five-year low ($6.02½ per cwt.) will not feel the 1939 crop until this fall when pigs farrowed this spring begin to go to slaughter. Chief beneficiaries of the booming pig population: the corn farmers, 40% of whose product will...
These eulogistic claims of the deadliest weapon, pound for pound, ever devised by man, were studied last week by Manhattan stock salesmen who had never fired a shot in anger. They were planning neither to fight a war nor put down riots, but to sell 300,000 shares of stock (at $2.75 a share) in Thompson Automatic Arms Corp...
Eggs are $100 a dozen Said our German cousin Coffee is $1.50 a pound All the way around...
...Pussy-Cat went to sea In a beautiful pea-green boat: They took some honey, and plenty of money Wrapped up in a five-pound note...