Word: silver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scene for his toy theatre. When she returned, her appreciation of his efforts was so great she spared the rod and did not even scold the boy when she discovered that much of its beauty was due to the fact that he'd cut up her lovely silver evening gown. She is a talented musician and many an hour was spent at the piano playing for him while he worked away at his scenes...
Streaked with silver by last week's end was the darkling sky over the U. S. textile world as it emerged after its three-week strike. In the South many a mill owner still kept his heart and door closed to returning strikers and there were faint rumblings of a new walkout. But in Washington three tried & trusted mediators went soberly to work on the strike's cause and consequence with bright prospects of success...
Chinese bankers have stolidly watched the Roosevelt Administration's oft-repeated promise to "do something about silver," increase the price of the metal, upon which Chinese currency is based, from about 16? to about 50? an ounce. One of the loudest cries of silver Senators in the U. S. was that raising the price of silver would also raise the purchasing power of the Far East...
...like every other government, China has no desire to increase her imports at the expense of her export trade. Rising silver has drastically reduced her markets...
...better one with National Broadcasting Co. and a place with Phil Baker on the Armour hour. Last week's award resulted from a nation-wide balloting in which she won 23,432 votes out of 290,000. Besides her crown she received a one-and-one-half foot silver loving...