Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus pressure on the franc last week was "psychological, not actual," in the opinion of foreign exchange experts. They pointed to the success of new Premier Flandin in winning huge votes of confidence from Chamber and Senate on a program of rock-ribbed gold standardism (seep. 21). The gold cover behind French currency stood at over 80%. Even so, psychological pressure was great. After-effects of the French crisis fortnight ago kept the currencies of four gold bloc countries (France, Belgium, Netherlands, Switzerland) fractionally below the gold export point all week. President Roosevelt, by relaxing completely the lax treasury restrictions...
Contrary to general belief the Auk was not an Arctic bird. It bred and lived in Iceland and on the islands off Newfoundland where French fishermen were responsible for its extinction. Auk hunting was simplicity itself. A gangplank was laid from a fishing boat to a rock on shore. Inquisitive Auks waddled painfully aboard, were knocked on the head and dumped in the hold...
...chair in the forest and dozens of other Dali works went on view last week at the Julien Levy Gallery. Among them : Monument to Woman and Child, a great grey whorl that might be wood or weathered rock, in which can be seen ogling men's faces, clutching hands, Napoleon, the Mona Lisa, a pair of buttocks; The Spectre of Sex Appeal, with a little child in a blue sailor suit by a rocky seashore gazing at a gigantic diseased figure propped up by forked sticks...
Market analysis have the uncomfortable feeling that, although the Gold Blee counties weathered their internal difficulties of the past week, the situation remains unchanged and that sooner or later the gold standard will be abandoned. At one time the storms of last week seemed about to rock the boat and there are signs of a typhoon in the offing. This question of the effect of abandonment on our markets has split the experts into two distinct schools of thought. One camp maintains that it will be the starting gun for an international inflation race and that commodities and stocks will...
...that if its story were imagined as a 500-page book, recorded history would fit easily into the last word, the Christian era into the last letter. How is this known? The rate at which radioactive substances decay can be experimentally determined, and hence the age of radioactive rock can be told by the amount of decay observed. In Canada there are rocks that reveal an age of 1,230,000,000 years. Yet Earth could not be more than two or three times that old, because otherwise all the radium would have decayed to lead. Thus the time...