Word: silver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last few hurried days of its session than in any previous week. Important bills that became laws in the final week of Congress: Bank Deposit Guarantee, providing continuance for another year of the present temporary system but with guaranteed deposits increased from $2,500 to $5,000. Silver Purchases, authorizing the Treasury to buy silver in the world market until the monetary reserve consists of 75% gold and 25% silver. Railroad Pensions, for all railway employes above 65. Employes will contribute one-third, railroads two-thirds to the retirement fund. Communications Commission to rule telephone, telegraph, radio and cable companies...
...cent copper was preceded by the broadest buying in months (see p. 56). Cocoa trading (5½? per Ib.) was the heaviest of the year. Hides were strong, and sugar hit a four-year high at 1.88? per pound for May futures. Wool was inactive at 90? per Ib. Silver trading has slowed to a practical standstill since announcement of a proposed 50% tax on all profits derived from sales of bullion to the Government, and the price has hung around 45? per ounce. Side by side with climbing commodity prices this spring has been an expanding public interest...
...main line into Salt Lake City. Next day the Governors of Colorado and Utah, the Mayors of Denver and Salt Lake, six railroad presidents and several thousand rejoicing citizens rode out on a fleet of trains, shuttled back & forth over the Cutoff, held a mighty barbecue, drove ceremonial silver spikes. Running time for passenger trains between Denver and Salt Lake City over this newest transcontinental line had been cut a good eight hours...
...request of the headmasters, and flying visits to the jailhouse. Entering college Carlos ran for a while like a flywheel, and got off to a Huppuch start, good marks were his at November hours and mid-years. This success immediately went to his head. With delight be silenced the silver voice of song with a grapefruit. Came the Idea of March. 'I have met the enemy and they are Hours,' sobbed our hero as he sank into a Rank of despond. A modicum of hard work enabled him to finish up the year so successfully that he was invited...
...Elegy- $3,500; a second edition of Edgar Allan Poe's Poems-$3,400; a complete set of Declaration of Independence signers- $18,989; an Ispahan palace carpet-$13,000 a glazed terra cotta altarpiece from the workshop of Delia Robbia-$7,600; a two-handled Queen Anne silver cup and cover - $1,550; a 16th Century Tournai tapestry...