Word: silver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gold" cup presented by the Lord Mayor of London seven years ago to the Governor of Rome. Brought to the Bank of Italy by Prince Ludovico Spada-Veralli-Potenziani, London's cup, in the words of Italy's analysts, proved to be "thinly plated with gold over silver, and not very good silver at that...
Upon being told by the nearest British civil servant, he exclaimed, "Indeed! Do you actually inform me that that is the inkstand of His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs? I am accustomed to a silver and crystal inkstand. This appears to be of braass and glaass...
Editor Shively always has a few stock subjects which he whips unmercifully up & down his column on the slightest provocation. Jesse Jones' slow ticker service and the Administration's silver policy are current favorites. He seldom passes up a chance to hop on fatuous statements, particularly those in brokers' market letters. Great was the glee of Hard-money-man Shively when he spotted a Treasury statement in which "lawful money" erroneously appeared as "awful money." Another typical Shively item appearing last December: "The latest issue (July) of the illustrated monthly magazine, U. S. S. R. in Construction...
...cheaply extracted from the other elements found in company with it. Even at Sudbury, "cheap" is a relative term, for nickel sells at about 35? per lb., compared with aluminum at 20?, copper at 9?, steel at 2?. Other useful ingredients in Sudbury ore are copper, platinum, gold and silver. Roughly speaking, a ton of Sudbury ore yields 95 lb. of copper, 47 lb. of nickel, and fractional ounces of precious metals. On a dollar basis, International gets out of a ton of ore about $16.50 worth of nickel, $8.55 of copper, $4 of precious metals...
...magnates have to change the inimitable touches which the great authors have included in their works. Dickens knew that cheating at dice would be a great discredit to the witness in the minds of the Old Bailey jury but the director had to change the line to stealing a silver tea pot so as to insert a feeble witticism about its being plated anyway. Fortunately such departures are rare...