Word: pounded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President should not accept the offer of gold-standard countries who wish to secure our money at the same rate we are waiting for, and why the Federal Reserve is tacitly encouraged to operate in foreign exchange to support the dollar when it obviously cannot influence the franc or pound with a handful of Austrian paper totalling about seven millions...
...were the rule, but tall, gaunt Chancellor Neville Chamberlain of the British Exchequer droned on for 38 minutes, read what sounded like a catalog of every job which a world conference could possibly attempt. Speaking for France broad-shouldered, big-voiced Premier Edouard Daladier called sharply for dollar and pound stabilization beside the stable gold franc. Most polished, most eloquent and most fervent was U. S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull's appeal for World co-operation and lower tariffs, but it did nothing to clear up the Conference fog as to what the U. S. Delegation is empowered...
...female insect, relative to the cochineal of Mexico, that lays its eggs on oak leaves throughout southern Europe. The insects are killed in a vapor of hot vinegar, dried, and ground for pigment. It takes 10 to 12 lb. of kermes to produce as red a color as one pound of cochineal. The Louvre lady's lips are of cochineal, unknown in Europe before Cortes brought it back in 1523, unknown in Italy for 20 years more. Leonardo da Vinci died...
Prices. No less amazing has been the rise in prices. Moody's index of sensitive commodity prices shot from 78.7 to 123.8 last week. Wheat has jumped from a 1933 low of 48¾? a bushel to 75½?, cotton from 5.90? a pound to 9.45?. copper from 5? a pound to 8? hogs from $2.85 a cwt. to $4.60. Between $2,000,000.000 and $3,000,000,000 has been added to the value of U. S. crops. A booming New Deal market has swelled stock values $12,000,000,000 and bond values...
...patriots, politicians, army contractors, women who obscenely presented white feathers. You will forgive me if, as courteously as is possible in the circumstances, I say that a field latrine is more use to humanity than these leavings." In answer to the upholders of the late War she quotes Ezra Pound's verse...