Word: silver
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Winners of the verdict were four purchasers of stock of Austin Silver Mining Co., of which Socialite Sabin was once president. They bought 6,000 shares of Austin Silver in March 1937. It was between $2.50 and $3. By the end of the year it had dropped to a dismal 871/2?. But while the price went downhill, the four had no intention of going on a sleigh ride with it. They brought suit for the difference between the purchase price and the price on the day they filed the petition. They contended that Section 11 had been violated because...
Second Day. Next morning, bound for Montreal, 180 miles up the St. Lawrence Their Majesties boarded the Royal train, a silver, blue and gold twelve-car streamliner with Royal bedrooms connected by a sliding, panel, gold-plated telephones, a lounge car, offices and bedrooms for the staff and party. At every whistle-stop the populace waved frantically, but the only full stop was at Three Rivers, where the King and Queen walked over the tracks on a wooden platform to greet 50,000 appreciative gazers, twice the town's population...
Wealthy Chinese as well as foreign traders in China have long realized that the safest haven for their transferable riches-jewels, antiques, gold and silver objects, foreign bonds, foreign money-was in the foreign-held concessions and International Settlements, where neither Chinese bandit nor Japanese invader could get at them. In their invasion of China the Japanese have found precious little loot with which to finance their war. Before they retreated the Chinese were careful to strip their cities of wealth, and what they could not take westward with them they hastily deposited in the foreign-controlled zones...
...began the Japanese showed signs of coveting the accumulated riches of the concessions. In North China the Japanese demanded that the foreign concession at Tientsin, and the Legation Quarter at Peking, turn over to their puppet Government for a new Federal Reserve Bank some $9,000.000 in silver belonging to the Chinese Government-controlled banks. When foreign authorities (backed by the French and British Governments) refused, the Japanese took the extraordinary procedure of issuing paper money "against" this silver...
...Lloyd McKim Garrison prize of $175 and a silver medal was won by Feltenstein for his poem "Flood and Low Water." Caughey received the Harvard Monthly prize of $50 for the student in an advanced English composition course showing the greatest literary promise...