Word: silver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With gold worth something over $1,000,000,000 already stocked away in its great new fortress-vault at Fort Knox, Ky. (TIME, Jan. 25), the U. S. Treasury last week announced similar plans for insuring the safety of its silver. Soon the Treasury plans to ask for bids on a building similar to Fort Knox depository, but somewhat larger, that will be built on a four-acre tract near the U. S. Military Academy at West Point, will hold 2,000,000,000 oz. of silver...
...professional hockey, the playoffs for the Stanley Cup, battered silver trophy that has been the game's No. i prize since 1894, mean what the World Series means to professional baseball. The difference is that the playoffs achieve their point much less directly. If the Stanley Cup were awarded to the winner of the series between the two teams that led their respective divisions of the National Hockey League, the maximum number of games in the playoffs would be five. What happens instead is that all but the two worst of the league's eight teams engage...
...colleges which will compete in the Eastern Intercollegiate Chin Golf Championship Tournament to be held tomorrow evening at 6:15 in studio number 1 of WOR at New York. John L. Allen '39 will wear the colors of the Crimson in an attempt to win a three-foot-high silver...
...meet the financial problem, the the committee recommended that awarding of gold and silver medals be stoppel, that the Coolidge Prize of $100 be reduced to $75, with second and third prizes of $25 and $15, and that an appropriation should be secured to cover expenses such as travelling and entertainment of visiting debaters...
Since the rise in copper has long since been discounted in the price of copper shares, the stock market has lately been combed for lead and zinc issues. Market-wise, U. S. Smelting Refining & Mining, which used to be a prime "silver stock," is now a "lead stock" with a high zinc flavor. On boom-time operating schedules it turns out from its own mines about 60,000 tons of lead, 30,000 tons of zinc...