Word: silver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...farmer. The adoption of the inflation program of President Roosevelt, if we may term it as such, has resulted not only in immediate but in substantial increases in the prices of all agricultural commodities with a further advance noticeable in the last 72 hours in steel, copper, and silver. The early adoption of this program by Congress, supplemented by the States of the nation and the subdivisions of the State, should serve as a backlog for the preservation of industrial activity and prosperity when the same has been created...
...Editor & Publisher tradepaper, Fred W. Kennedy, journalism director at University of Washington-walked gravely up & down the rows, dropping ballots upon sheets which caught their favor for excellence of typography, make-up and presswork. Last week the "sweepstakes" winner was announced: the New York Times. Prize: a silver cup bearing the name of Francis Wayland Ayer, late founder of the agency. Honors also were awarded in two other classes. Among newspapers of 10,000 to 50,000 circulation: the Rockford (Ill.) Register-Republic. Among newspapers of 10,000 or less: the Chambersburg (Pa.) Public Opinion...
...years yielded $100,000,000 to its four new owners-Irishmen William S. O'Brien, James C. Flood, James G. Fair and John W. Mackay-father of Postal Telegraph's Clarence Mackay. In 1907 a fall of rock disclosed a $1,000,000 pocket of gold and silver. In 1912 another $1,250,000 pocket was found 2,500 ft. underground. But the Comstock's surprises have been growing scarcer, Virginia City more & more depopulated...
Andes-Consolidated Virginia Mining Co. lately bought an old house for $150, last week set unemployed miners to wreck it for firewood. One afternoon a wrecker rushed to the superintendent of the mine carrying a hunk of rock. It was silver ore, assaying $500 a ton. Hastily a small shaft was driven into the ground nearby; mining engineers rushed from San Francisco. The discovery of a "lost bonanza" was confirmed. Once more Virginia City was a boom town. Piute squaws came down out of the hills. Divorcees in fur coats motored over from Reno. But no lucky prospector stood...
...manager of Fierce-Arrow Motor Car Co.. was made president in recognition of the fact that in the last five years he has doubled Fierce-Arrow's share of sales in the fine car market. This spring the company produced mainly for exhibition purposes a $10,000 "Silver Arrow" model without exterior gadgets (spare tires, luggage rack, etc., etc.), with enclosed wheels and scientific streamlining to reduce wind resistance 35%, hailed as forecast of the cars of 1940. Fierce-Arrow is not affected by the receivership of Studebaker which owns a block of Fierce-Arrow stock, for Fierce...