Word: silver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Finally President & Premier are expected to stand shoulder to shoulder against British efforts to promote a world conference for the distribution of gold to consider such expedients as bimetallism. M. Laval, thrifty butcher's son, is congenitally opposed to mixing silver with gold, likes his gold straight. President Hoover, onetime mining engineer, feels the same...
Once, fiercely booed for 15 minutes, Mr. MacDonald left a Seaham platform without speaking while hundreds chorused, "You're a liar!" But more often Mac-Donald "platform magic" worked. The dignified, silver-haired Prime Minister won votes and wrung hearts by solemn sob-stuff. He dragged in his long dead wife: "In the old days, the first days, my wife and I had to pay for the postage of the Labor Party! We bought out of our own pockets-my wife and I-the very notepaper on which Labor's work was done. . . . Labor is in my blood...
Professor Eddy's Manning essay was on "Arsenic Elimination in the Reverberatory Refining of Native Copper." When the prices of copper and silver (which are often found in copper ores) are high, it is economic to separate the metals from intrusive materials by electrolysis. But when prices are as low as they are now (last week: copper, 7? per lb., and silver. 30? per oz.), copper mines and refineries must be shut down or copper reduction must be accomplished more cheaply. Professor Eddy pointed out ways of cheapening production...
...SILVER EAGLE?W. R. Burnett?Dial...
...will have a hard time putting down one of Burnett's books before you have finished it; The Silver Eagle is no exception. As in Little Caesar, the scene is contemporary Chicago, but this time the hero is no gangster but a racketeer perforce. Francis Cecil Harworth (ne plain Keogh) has come up from scratch to a position that includes the ownership of several nightclubs, a gambling house, a Rolls-Royce and a limited but attractive choice of women. All his businesses are strictly legal with the exception of the gambling house. Harworth is a hard young man with...