Word: silver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...First move was silver. When the Cárdenas Administration grabbed U.S.-owned oil properties in 1938, the U.S. quit direct buying of Mexican silver. In Secretary Morgenthau's office Mexico's Finance Minister Eduardo Suárez signed the agreement that started the U.S. buying again-6,000,000 ounces a month at 35? an ounce, or some $25,000,000 a year-to bury in the vault at West Point...
...resumed more practical work -the secret coordination of anti-Communist groups along the Russian border from Finland to the Ukraine. During the German-Soviet Pact it was frequently stated that Doktor Alfred Rosenberg was under a cloud. But probably his Führer frequently pointed out to him the silver lining...
Tommy Manville, Manhattan's silver souvenir of the trivial '20s, took another wife-his fifth. The bride was Bonita Francine Edwards, 22, a blonde showgirl whom 47-year-old Manville had met four days before. "Long engagements may be out of style," said the groom to the press, "but we're glad we waited till we were sure." The bride said frankly: "I'm not in love with Tommy-I'm just infatuated. I hope to fall in love with him after a while...
...marriage: the bride, daughter of a Chicago lumberman, came from a well-to-do family; she was a comparative newcomer to Broadway; Manville had been on the wagon more than a year. "This is the real thing," he said. "I mean to settle down." Day after the wedding the silver-haired asbestos heir confided to reporters: "My heart went cloppity, clop-clop all night...
...bonuses sometimes amount to several times their salary. All employes get free dental cleaning, free medical examination, cut-rate medical services, may even buy life insurance through the Tribune, or borrow money for homes from its own savings and loan company funds. Tribune newlyweds receive gifts of flat silver. And once a year the Colonel, in cutaway, receives all Tribune employes (3,000) in the main lobby, treats them to coffee and sandwiches. Paternalism on the Tribune, administered with feudal directness by the Colonel himself, has had potent influence on his staff...