Word: silver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...attraction was the solemn Parliament of the Bards (Gorsedd). Here, in colorful array (musicians in blue robes, poets in white, honorary bards in green), the bards met to honor this year's prizewinning poets with their wild applause and with Wales's most coveted trophies: the traditional silver crown and pulpit chair. Last week the applause rose even higher to honor royalty: pretty, bareheaded Princess Elizabeth, clad in a green Druidic robe...
...East Kootenays, Slocan and other silver-bearing areas of British Columbia, some 500 old sourdoughs and hopeful young war veterans chipped away last week in search of new lodes. Virgin claims were staked out, old claims rechecked. In Silverton, Sandon and many another mine town, shutters came down and hopes went...
...Silver, stagnant at 40? an oz. in wartime, had leaped to 71.11? last January when the Canadian ceiling was lifted, and again had bounded to 90.5? on the new U.S. price boost (TIME, July 29). For established silver producers like big Consolidated Mining & Smelting Co., which turns out 55% of Canada's 13 million oz. a year, this was heaven on earth. For hundreds of mines, abandoned when silver plummeted to around 30? an oz. in the '30s, it could mean revival...
...place first or second in the first four classes of competition will receive silver or bronze medals. Winners in the fifth and sixth classes, the compromise and wherry classes, will be awarded oak plaques...
...wartime powers. Just as baffled as most U.S. people, it thrashed around in the undergrowth of price control, came up with a compromise OPA bill; no one has any idea whether it will live and bear fruit. Inexplicably it plowed under all effective housing acts. It also endorsed the silver bloc's raid on the Treasury, which will cost U.S. taxpayers plenty and further demoralize the currencies of China, India and Mexico...