Word: pound
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...typical one: how to explain what 18th century money was worth. Answer: the 1776 dollar, which meant either the Spanish silver dollar or Continental paper redeemable in Spanish silver, would be worth, on the basis of new U.S. Commerce Department figures, about eleven of today's dollars, and the pound sterling about 50 dollars...
...Breach." The original plan called for a wading infantry attack on Sullivan's Island and a simultaneous naval assault. Parker accordingly anchored most of his fleet, including the flagship Bristol and the Experiment, both of 50 guns, only a few hundred yards from the fort and proceeded to pound it with broadside after broadside. At the same time, the bomb ketch Thunder anchored farther south and arched explosive 10-inch mortar shells into Moultrie's position. Three lighter vessels, the Actaeon and the Syren, both 28 guns, and the Sphinx, 20, drifted westward into the harbor, hoping...
...arranged with other merchants-notably the Providence firm of Brown, Hopkins, Jenckes & Bowen-to seek out arms in the West Indies and Europe for 2½ percent commission. John Brown arranged to buy a cargo of gunpowder in Surinam last November and charged a price of 6 shillings a pound, which General Washington called "most exorbitant" (in December Brown made a profit of ?20,000 for such work). But the price is still rising. On Brown, Hopkins' latest shipment from the West Indies a month ago, the firm had to pay 14 shillings a pound and made the somewhat...
...beef has exploded-up 114 percent in only three months, from ?3 10 shillings to ?7 10 shillings in Pennsylvania currency per barrel. New Yorkers are buying refined sugar at exactly double the cost of three months ago (1 shilling 3 pence, v. 2 shillings 6 pence per pound). And tavern keepers throughout the Colonies are bitterly protesting the intoxicated prices of West Indian rum, now running as much as 110 percent higher than last whiter. Even the humble pin is no longer humble in cost. A woman in Braintree, Massachusetts, complains: "The cry for pins is so great that...
...cruisers to attack the British ships bringing supplies to the forces besieged inside the city, hired vessels to start making raids. Within a month, one of them, the Lee, made a major catch-the ordnance brigantine Nancy, loaded with 2,000 muskets and bayonets, 3,000 rounds of 12-pound shot, a large supply of gunpowder, flints and a huge mortar...