Word: silver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President will accept up to $100,000,000 in silver as payment on War debts at a rate of not more than 50? an ounce. This sop to boost the silver market holds good for only one year. The silver payments will be used for coinage to back an issue of silver certificates...
...Government set the minnow against the mosquitoes. It was the silver-brown "mosquito fish" or gambusia, found only in North & South Carolina ponds. The male is less than an inch long. The female is twice his size and gives birth to live fish. Surface-feeders, they gladly gobble all the mosquito "wigglers" they can hold. Italy bought 200,000 of them every year from U. S. fish dealers and dumped them into the Istrian ponds. They gobbled their weight in "wigglers." Fortnight ago the Italo-German Institute of Marine Biology announced that the gambusia had gobbled malaria clean...
...bombing, destruction and invasion of U. S. mission property. In Peiping Japanese Chargé d' Affaires S. Nakayama announced last week Japan's willingness to make reparations. It had already made a cash settlement for the bombing of a French Catholic Mission south of the Wall ($600, silver) and had paid rental for the occupation by Japanese troops of the U. S. Methodist Mission at Shanhaikwan ($22, gold...
...sell newspapers, with the last dominant. Hearst always loved to entertain, with his own stories, songs, guitar, clog-dancing as well as lavish parties. His newspaper formula added Money, Sex and Patriotism to the old imperial adage about Bread and Circuses. In 1896 he plumped for Bryan and free silver. After the Spanish war he discovered he had gone too far in his formulistic excoriation of President McKinley as a tool of the Plutocracy. McKinley's assassination was blamed on the Journal's incendiary editorials. Hearst changed the morning Journal's name to American...
With the President and Congress plumping for inflation (see p. 10), silver prices last week jumped more than 25%. from 28? per oz. to the neighborhood of 36. Practically every inflationary scheme discussed had its silvery promise: to remonetize silver at 16 to 1; to have the U. S. take $100,000,000 worth of silver from any government in payment on War debts; to have the U. S. buy 5,000,000 oz. of silver per month; to have the U. S. buy $250,000,000 worth of silver to remove the world surplus. Three classes of arguments were...