Word: silver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...items warranted serious consideration. Excited by the response and quality of the material from the nation's most obscure reporters, Editors McMillen & Lord at once decided that "our prize offer was too puny for an event of such importance." So they upped the main prize by one silver meat platter, one vegetable dish to match and one trip to New York, created a number of special awards, scattered gratuitous $5 bounties this way & that. The contest will henceforth be expanded and enlarged, "the prize offer will be multiplied several times." Well might Country Home grow enthusiastic over their crossroads...
...share. Last week it was selling at $15 per share. Profits before depletion in 1934 were $1,500,000. Including a small amount of ore handled for other nearby mines, Hudson Bay's production last year was 99,000 oz. of gold, 1,300,000 oz. of silver, 37,000,000 Ib. of copper, 49,000,000 Ib. of zinc. Today with copper in world markets about 7? per Ib. and hard to sell at that, the great Whitney promotion market-wise has a somewhat golden appeal. With gold at $35 per oz. nearly one half of its revenues...
...House caller.* Also on hand was Professor Oliver Mitchell Wentworth Sprague, the Treasury's hard money adviser, who quit his post in 1933 as a protest against the prevailing Warren theories. Another was Professor James Harvey Rogers, who lost caste in Washington for criticizing the Administration's silver policies. There was even a self-appointed New Deal economist, Britain's Major Lawrence Lee Bazley Angas, prophet of coming U. S. booms...
Five notable results of President Roosevelt's silver purchasing policy have been: 1) a panic in China, 2) temporary dislocation of the Mexican banking system, 3) enrichment of a number of speculators at home & abroad, 4) accumulation of an enormous hoard of bullion which the Treasury may never be able to sell and 5) booming bar trade in all the mining camp saloons of the Mountain States...
Though the money for modernizing the Comstock mines was reported to be in the hands of a "Raskob-Baruch-Pittman" group, both Nevada's Senator Pittman and Bernard Baruch denied any financial interest. However, the Silver Senator admitted that he was advising Mr. Raskob as counsel...