Word: silver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...months ago carried him last week up the crimson-carpeted stair of Buckingham Palace. Flunkies in scarlet & gold bowed the small, unrepentant lawbreaker into the Picture Gallery. There at the head of the receiving line stood George V in striped trousers and morning coat, Queen Mary in a shimmering silver tea gown and Edward of Wales (who had flown down especially from Liverpool) dressed like his father. The Lord Cham berlain, the Earl of Cromer, advanced through a horde of 500 tea guests, some of them Maharajas wearing pearls as big as butterballs...
...make a daguerreotype, a silver-plated copper plate, scrupulously clean, was subjected to the vapor from iodine until it turned a golden orange color. With the subject's neck held rigidly in an iron clamp the plate was exposed in a camera for from three to 30 minutes, developed by holding it over a cup of hot mercury, fixed by dipping in a mixture of hyposulphite of soda and gold chloride. Finger marks and heat ruin the image of a daguerreotype...
...Dollar Silver" was another speculative slogan last week, but more far-fetched than "Dollar Wheat." Shorts covering and the general commodity rise sent the metal to 35|f an ounce against the year's low of 25!^. For the first time silver trading on the National Metal Exchange, Manhattan, became clamorous, wild. Public buying was attracted because silver can be bought on a 6% margin. Companies with stakes in silver-currency nations were in demand, shares of mining com- panies were widely bought. Copper remained at 7^ but it was reported that consumers were taking all offerings. Manchurian...
Patrick H. Joyce, chairman and acting president of Chicago Great Western .RcU was made its president (see above). Adolph F. Stone, former chairman of F- 6 W, Grand-Silver Stores, Inc-> was made president, succeeding his brother...
Harold F. Stone, who became vice president and treasurer. Among other changes, Edward J. Quintal, vice president of Chase National Bank, was elected a director. Chase last year bought $8.000.000 worth of Grand-Silver bonds, has not as yet offered them to the public. Recently the company (163 5-10-25^ and $1 stores in the U. S. and 52 in Canada) passed its dividend, gave no explanation...