Word: silver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...senior Bewick, Moreing partner he made $125,000 per year, not counting directors' fees and bonuses. By 1908 when he left Bewick, Moreing to work for himself, he was worth $500,000 or more. His biggest venture and largest success was the Burma mines, producing lead, silver, copper and zinc. In 1914 his Burma shares were worth $1,141,465. Friction developed with his partner and in 1915 he started to liquidate his Burma mines holdings. From them he got between $2,654,000 and $3,142,000. As consultant and director from 1908 to 1914 he made some...
...justify the reduction or cancellation of the debts. . . than by means of a conference. . . which would be permitted to deal with [1] Reparations and Debts; [2] Disarmament; [3] the re-establishment of the gold standard (31 nations being now off the gold standard) ; [4] the stabilization of silver in the Orient and [5] possibly other questions...
...Suiting action to his words the Soviet Delegate moved to amend the resolution by inserting into it the chief, concrete features of the Hoover Plan. Three votes were taken and on all three the U. S. Ambassador voted against insertion of the Hoover Plan. At this juncture a huge "silver" (aluminum) seaplane, roaring up from Rome, appeared over Geneva. The Delegates, as they voted down the Russian proposals, could see out of the windows of the Conference Palace the great silver bird as it settled down on Lac Leman...
Last week the Assay Office was being moved into new quarters. Wall Street felt glad to be rid of it, for noxious fumes have belched from its ungainly chimney. To complete the moving, a billion dollars worth of gold and $70,000,000 in silver will have to be transported to the new building at South Street and Old Slip. The date and method of the moving were kept tomb-secret, although officials publicly estimated that it would take from 13 to 26 days. Also secret is the nature of the construction of the new building's great vaults...
While the Assay Office keeps gold & silver, its main business is to test coins and bullion, analyze ore samples for all-comers at a small fee. It is run as a department of the Mint, with headquarters in Manhattan, branches in New Orleans, Seattle, Salt Lake City, Boise, Helena, Carson and Deadwood. Once a year, in the presence of the Director of the Mint, the Assay Commission meets to test samples of U. S. coins. One gold piece out of 1,000 and one silver coin out of 2,000 are selected at random. All incoming foreign coins and bullion...