Word: silver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cuban American were allowed to handle the conversion, they promised to set up a Cuban national currency of 100,000,000 silver pesos. These Promoter Greñas and his bankers said they were ready to furnish at the rate of 5,000,000 a month. Cuba would have 2,500,000 each month as a seigniorage, would pay for the rest by turning over the U. S. and foreign currency captured through Cuba's sizable export balance. With its own currency Cuba could then set up a national bank to furnish Cubans with foreign credit in exchange...
...Copenhagen's streets. The movement came to nothing because the most rabid Republicans decided that popular King Christian would be the only possible President, concluded they might as well retain him as King. On May 14, two days after George VI's Coronation in London, comes the Silver Jubilee of Christian X. Representing Denmark at Westminster Abbey will be Crown Prince Frederik, who will then fly back by specially chartered plane to Copenhagen in time for his father's celebration...
...food, and wanted to try the delicacies of different countries." So perhaps it was pace which slimmed Princess Juliana, whose latest pictures show her to be by no means her former dumpling self (see cut). She and Benno have zipped and roared around Europe in a $15,200 silver-finished Maybach-Zeppelin automobile. On their last night in Paris they got home to their hotel toward dawn, were off next day for The Netherlands in their Maybach without realizing what was in the rumble seat. As the great car shot across France, frantic telephone calls from Paris strove to intercept...
...Shaw, Fresh from New York's showy French Casino and the glamorous Silver Gril of the Lexington, will lead his band through a savage swing session, interspersed with sophisticated melodies for the more restrained at the Adams House Spring Dance on Friday, April...
...vast variety of troublesome conditions may cause high blood pressure. There is one condition, however, which always occurs in the beginning of hypertension, Dr. Goldblatt announced last week. That is a reduction in the amount of blood supplied to the kidneys. Dr. Goldblatt determined this by attaching tiny silver clamps to the kidney arteries of dogs. With the blood supply cut off from the kidneys, they began to deteriorate and produced an undetermined substance which affected the adrenal glands (one on each kidney) and irritated blood vessels throughout the body, thus causing high blood pressure...