Word: silver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more significant than the rise in stock prices, last week, was a world-wide gain in commodities. The most important gain was that registered in silver. The only calm thing about the Bombay silver bullion exchange is the sacred cow which, fat and lazy, spends most of her time in somnambulistic repose, blinking sadly and chewing her cud. During the Depression the sacred cow has seen many disconcerting things. Silver has dropped from 1929's high of 57½? to the historic low of 25½?per fine ounce. The only notable interruption was the remarkable corner staged last...
Shanghai businessmen, oddly enough, were among the most excited rejoicers at what President Hoover proposed.* Shanghai bankers said that the Hoover postponement would raise the price of silver, help to raise China's pitifully sunk silver-standard currency. Their theory: postponing will ''improve world trade." In this improvement China will share. More trade with China will increase the demand for silver in which she deals. In Shanghai the price of silver upped suddenly, fantastically some...
...does not matter, Mahatma," said she, "but accept, Great Soul, this silver throne and this silver footstool...
Blinking and winking, the small scrawny Mahatma peered up at the rich Indian woman's big servants, holding respectfully the silver throne & silver footstool...
Returning home from a (light over Switzerland one day last week the Graf Zeppelin dipped low over Lake Constance. But instead of flying on to her hangar at Friedrichshafen near the north shore, the great silver sausage slowed to a standstill about 100 ft. above the water. Capt. Ernst Lehmann barked orders, rang signals. Six open tanks were dropped at cable-ends. Striking the surface they quickly filled with water, helped drag the great ship down. First the Graf poked her nose gingerly into the lake, then gently let her stern settle until she rested evenly upon her waterproofed gondolas...