Word: silver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...correctly indicated by TIME, decline in the price of silver has carried the Mex-dollar (based on silver) down to an average four-to-one ratio for the past four months...
...liner Colombie, was welcomed by British officials and most of the populace. Trinidad understood what brought him. A courier had just arrived from Cayenne, French Guiana, with word of a drastic administrative reform inaugurated by Governor Bouge. Most of French Guiana is unexplored. Preliminary surveys show traces of gold, silver, lead, copper. There are phosphate deposits and valuable rosewood forests. But French Guiana, as all the world knows, is also France's penal colony. Young Frenchmen wall not go there to colonize. Therefore, by order of the French Government, it has been decreed that in future only a coastal...
...entries from 47 countries. Cotton Worker Powell won the British national prize of $5,000 and an additional class award of $500. He also won the grand prize of $10,000 and a cash award of $1,000. Beside the money he was given a gold medal and a silver statue of a female figure, draped, holding aloft an actual photographic lens...
Died. Professor Walter Francis Reid, 81, inventor of smokeless powder, onetime (1910) president of the Society of Chemical Industry, research chemist (linoleum, cement, silver on backs of mirrors); of "extreme debility;" in Kingston. Surrey, England. A recluse for the last two years, Professor Reid lived in a cold, decaying mansion on milk and well-water, saw no one, was found in a stupor, his hair straggling to his shoulders, his beard to his waist...
...advertising from National Broadcasting Co. Kate Smith's story is another one based on tobacco. Her 240 Ib. and an easy, tricky way of singing had scarcely identified her with musicomedy when La Palina cigars snatched her up for a sum appropriate to her size. Joe White ("The Silver-Masked Tenor"), Jack Smith ("The Whispering Baritone") and B. A. Rolfe (Lucky Strike Dance Orchestra) prove that the dial works two ways. They are yesterday's capable headliners now without sponsors...