Word: silver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thousand ears stayed cocked while Pierrepont Burt Noyes read lengthy telegrams. Mr. Noyes, president of Oneida Community Ltd. (silver plate), managed the spending of the last $4,500,000 on Saratoga Spa and is going to remain with the management to give the Spa éclat. Up to now Jews who learned the wisdom of mineral baths in Germany and Austria have been the most numerous and constant users of Saratoga...
...when no one challenges Gar Wood for the Harmsworth Trophy, is the race for the Gold Cup in which specifications, changed from year to year, place definite limits on the size and power of competing craft. Put up in 1904, the Gold Cup cost $730, is gold plate on silver. Experts estimate that motorboat enthusiasts have spent $40,000,000 trying to win it. Last week, on Lake George, N. Y., five long-nosed hydroplanes zoomed over the dark green water getting ready for the start. On the eve of the race, two had broken down and withdrawn...
...Davis Cup, an elaborate silver bowl and tray, is now so completely covered with names of winners that where to put this year's will be a puzzle. It was put up for competition in 1900 by onetime Secretary of War Dwight Filley Davis. Last week, Dwight Davis Jr., the donor's son, was beaten 6-3, 4-6, 4-6 by an unseeded player named Frederic Gaskell in the quarter finals of the Suffolk County, N. Y., singles championship...
Died. Gray Silver, 64, farmer, banker, lobbyist, onetime (1907-15) West Virginia State Senator, onetime head of U. S. Grain Marketing Corp. of Chicago; of a heart attack; in Martinsburg, W. Va. As Washington representative of the American Farm Bureau Federation in 1920, Lobbyist Silver became known as "the man who runs the farm bloc...
...early days of Depression a gold boom hit the mining States. It was followed by a silver boom which hit its proper pace this spring after Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau squeezed silver prices to a high of 81? per oz. (Depression low: 25?). Secretary Morgenthau has currently let the price slip to 68? but by law he must continue buying until either his silver stocks amount to 25% of his gold stocks or the price goes to $1.29 per oz., the more likely alternative...