Word: silver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...higher subsidy for U. S.-mined silver was the bill's third provision. The Treasury's old price was 64.64? per oz. Silver Senators demanded as high as $1.29. The Administration ascertained that 70.95? was a rock-bottom price for which enough silverites would desert their hard-money allies. It was crude barter by both sides, but it worked. The bill finally passed 43-39 with Senators Borah, Pittman and O'Mahoney leading seven silverite sellouts, setting the price of silver...
...increased silver price meant an added $9,000.000 annual subsidy to U. S. miners. As soon as the Senate voted, the Sunshine Mine in Senator Borah's Idaho (nation's largest producer) announced it would reopen...
...Norway's moosey King Haakon took to telegraphing her before every public appearance. Germany's Crown Prince Wilhelm called her to him after a performance and impulsively gave her his diamond stickpin, adorned with the Hohenzollern crest. She had a room filled with some 100 gold and silver mugs, gold placques, decorations, certificates. Sonja had almost everything she wanted-but not quite everything. She had a consuming desire to be a movie star...
After 1850 Western mines produced an average $50,000,000 a year in gold and silver. That golden figure is the key to the uneven lives and works of San Francisco's frontier writers. With few exceptions, gold brought them West. Gold brought the sophisticated, cosmopolitan population, the wealth and leisure that make readers, writers and publishers. Because gold was elusive, restlessness and skepticism became a familiar literary tradition. Because male Argonauts outnumbered female twelve to one, traditions of rough-&-ready humor and violence grew apace...
California gold and Nevada silver built the mansions on Nob Hill (where Mark Twain dreamed of living some day), bought the elegant, satin-lined carriages that rolled over San Francisco's plank streets. They paid for San Franciscans' one-pound gold watches, their champagne (seven bottles to Bostonians' one), their imported building stone from China, accounted as well for San Francisco's 1,000 yearly suicides...