Word: silver
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...protection, whose blue helmets added yet another splash of color. And last, but not least, Mohammedans from Turkestan and the Tartar Republic, draped in multicolored flowing robes, and a great Caucasian tribesman in an ample gray cloak over which were slung cartridge bandoleers, a sword-belt holding many silver knives and supporting a wicked-looking scimitar...
Just now the market for silver in European countries is distinctly good. Europe is weary of everlasting paper bills of doubtful value, but scarcely ready as yet to return to a pure gold standard. As a result, there is widespread demand for silver coins. Over 3,000,000 ounces of silver has been sold by American companies to Poland, to be coined into Polish token money. The German Government has under consideration a 30,000,000-ounce order for silver. Austria has resumed silver coinage at her own mint, and Russia is considering the coinage of silver money. Ultimately...
...question of the gold standard is more than merely an abstract topic for economists to debate. It vitally concerns the western silvermine owners, who have been far from backward in the past in "protecting their interests" in Washington. In 1896 many silver miners supported Bryan, not because they really feared mankind was being crucified on a cross of gold, but because his doctrines meant increased sales of the white metal...
...Story. Peter Pock, Jr., was born in a bed of roses with a silver spoon in his mouth...
...articles shown include silk embroideries, silver engraved pieces, solid silver slippers, gold slippers, ivory pieces, wooden boxes is laid with ivory and brass, and vocal carvings of every description...