Word: rushing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...London's famed "Gold Rush" (TIME, Feb. 22) continued, the English hastening to sell their hoarded gold sovereigns (worth 20 shillings) for 28 paper shillings. Tens of thousands of English gold coins were shipped every day to Paris, where frugal Frenchmen bought and stuffed them into socks, clocks and crocks...
Through Japan en route to China passed, last week, the League of Nations' Commission on Manchuria. With good luck they might rush upon the scene just in time to be hailed as Heaven-sent arbitrators by both fighting factions. In Japan they commented exclusively on "the beauty of Japanese scenery...
Last week Continental Motors Corp., maker of engines for many pleasure cars and trucks, bought de Vaux-Hall's Michigan assets for $40,000, at the same time waiving a claim of $250,000 for unpaid bills. Continental plans to rush production on a new model de Vaux...
...gets away and is last heard of off the coast of Alaska. The next scene is in a New York hotel. Blin, the victorious hero, is expected home. His publicity manager is storming into telephones, receiving reporters, making engagements for dinners, banquets, radio broadcasts, and arranging cigarette endorsements. People rush in and out. Everyone is screaming when at last the victim comes in, he is immediately mauled by all in sight. A radio announcer yells at a microphone, cameras click, and moving picture machines purr. The scene is almost Shavian in its magnificence. The poor boy has not a moment...
...Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Rt. Hon. Neville Chamberlain, chose to inform the nation last week that it is legal to sell gold pound pieces (called "sovereigns" and worth 20 gold shillings) for 27 paper shillings or whatever else one can get for them. Instantly "London's Gold Rush" began. Millions of British gold pieces came out of hiding and millions of Britons began to take their "paper profits...