Word: silver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...like metal refinery in Brooklyn, the big steel trucking door was being closed one day last week when five desperadoes rushed in, disarmed the manager, bound ten employes together with heavy rope. Two of the gunmen guarded their prisoners, the other three rifled the plant of 30 bars of silver-gold-platinum-and-iridium alloy worth $50,000, took a rifle from the wall and $200 from the cash register for good measure. Then they vanished...
Because of the handicap system, which is governed by previous performance, every entrant will have an equal chance of sharing in the five prizes to be awarded the winners. The first prize is a gold medal, the second, a silver, and three awards to the next men finishing...
...2G.B., H. L. Brooks 2Ts., K. W. Brown '35, E. E. Calvin '35, Courtlandt Canby '36, Zechariah Chafee '34, A. T. Collier '34, L. P. Forster '33, E. A. Grant '32, R. I. Hardin 3L, J. D. Kernan '34, L. P. Marks 2L, H. W. Rubin '35, F. F. Silver '34, and R. S. Tangeman 1G; bases: G. H. Acheson '33, H. M. Daft '34, A. L. Gordon '34, H. E. Holm '35, C. V. MacCoy 5G, J. L. McDowell 4Dn., M. F. McKesson '34, J. H. Packard '34, T. B. Palmer 4G, W. S. Salant '33, R. E. Simon...
...when he reached the bandit camp, that Mrs. Pawley's kidnappers considered themselves unemployed and wanted steady jobs. As the first condition of ransom they demanded permission to enlist in the new Manchukuo Gendarmery. Second they demanded that the cash part of the ransom be paid in Chinese silver dollars, not in Japanese paper...
First the Nation's guest had to have the Order of Merit (1st class) plus the Grand Cordon of the Rising Sun with the gold & silver Medallion of the Rising Sun (with 31 rays) and the Imperial Paulownia Blossom, an affair of precious cloisonné. That was easy. Everything was easy in Tokyo last week for slightly rheumatic Guest Hsieh Kai-shih, snuff-taking Foreign Minister of Japan's new puppet state Manchukuo...