Word: silver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Britain's Tories got a horrid preview of Doomsday when the Labor Government moved to nationalize the Bank of England. Last week, as the nationalization bill was introduced into the House of Commons, Doomsday turned out to have a sterling silver lining...
...consumption continues at the prewar level, U.S. reserves of sulphur will be exhausted in 55 years; zinc in 19 years; gold in 14 years; silver in eleven years...
...intellectual world with a bull-like roar and the sound of breaking china. Bearded, massive, gaunt, propelling himself vigorously on heavy crutches like a "maimed Berserk," Henley made a spectacular impression. Young Robert Louis Stevenson instantly selected him as model for the one-legged pirate Long John Silver in Treasure Island...
MacArthur clamped down further. He forbade transactions in silver, gold and foreign exchange, denied the stock exchange permission to reopen, ordered the. Army and Navy to hand over all arms to the Allied Commander, all food and other supplies to civilian authorities (unwanted arms would be broken up for scrap). He permitted the manufacture of trucks but not of passenger cars. He ordered the criminals responsible for the infamous "Death March" on Bataan rounded up. Finally, he seized 21 Jap banks (but assured ordinary depositors that they would get their money...
...Silver-maned ex-Foreign Minister Oswaldo Aranha stirred up the already turbulent presidential election campaign with a story that had Brazil by the ears. Two years ago, related soft-spoken Aranha, General Eurico Caspar Dutra conspired to overthrow President Getulio Vargas. (Current point of the story: Dutra is a candidate for the Presidency in Brazil's December national election, and Vargas is ostensibly supporting him.) The plot was nipped by Vargas before the coup could be executed, Aranha said...