Word: rushing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...adopted measure, passed 67-1 in the Senate's rush to finish its week's work, is a pale cautionary code unlikely to infringe on the rules of the club or invade any Senator's privacy...
...result was the greatest gold rush in history. Almost all of the demand fell upon the London gold pool, through which the central banks of the U.S., Britain, West Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Belgium and The Netherlands had for 6½years maintained the free-market price of bullion at its $35-per-oz. monetary level. Between Britain's Nov. 18 devaluation and March 15, when the London market was closed at the U.S.'s request, the buying stampede drained the pool of some $2.5 billion of gold - nearly 2½times the amount mined in California during...
...Kennedy has hardly been toppled by a rush of supporters. Wire-service surveys of state party chairmen found most of them still loyal to Johnson. Only three, in New York, Oregon and Tennessee, were willing to come out publicly for Kennedy. The initial reaction among congressional Democrats, even those sympathetic to Kennedy personally and on the major issues, was one of alarm rather than support. "He'll ruin the party!" was the reflex comment of several Capitol Hill Democrats. Most congressional Democrats and party officials in the states know that they face a tough campaign already and that...
...land, to be transported by Swissair and British European Airways flights to the coffers of Swiss banks. The influx of gold became so bulging, in fact, that one Swiss bank had to reinforce the walls of its vault to contain it. It was all part of the largest gold rush in his tory, a frenetic, speculative stampede that last week threatened the Western world with its greatest financial crisis since the Depression...
Lost World? The rush was on because speculators-some avaricious, some panicky, some merely prudent-had become convinced that the U.S. and its partners could not much longer maintain the $35 price. With a balance of payments deficit of $3.6 billion last year and a war in Viet Nam that is costing some $30 billion annually, the U.S. has seen its gold reserves shrink by 50% from a postwar peak of $24.6 billion. Now, believed the speculators, the U.S. was nearing the end of its gold tether. If the U.S. could no longer sell gold to all takers...