Word: silver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...news, Italy's Constituent Assembly cheered him when he addressed it in Italian, sprinkled with Broadwayese. When he reminded the Italians that UNRRA had poured into the country $450.000,000 of supplies ("quello non é paglia-that ain't hay"), the city of Rome gave him a silver replica of the she-wolf nursing Romulus and Remus. To an aide, La Guardia whispered: "Is this for keeps?" When the aide nodded yes, LaGuardia smiled, patted the she-wolf on the rump and said: "This beats anything we ever gave away at City Hall...
When nationalistic, left-wing President Lazaro Cardenas expropriated the great foreign oil companies, Mexicans went on a patriotic spree. Exultant workers hailed the end of "foreign exploitation" as they paraded through city streets and village plazas; bands blared; housewives offered their silver to help pay for the $400,000,000 seizure. That was eight years ago. Last week TIME learned that President-elect Miguel Aleman might let foreign oil interests return...
...king. He who keeps his sheep alive through the winter lives in a palace." Hardly a palace, Summerhouses farmhouse is a combination living room-dining room-bedroom-kitchen, with a reeking stable for the stock below. The one true luxury in the house is Grandmother's solid silver earpick, an heirloom...
...price would go far to complete the demoralization of currencies in many countries (Mexico, India, China) which the Silver Bloc's grab had started. As the silver price has risen, silver has gone out of circulation in nations using it for currency and flowed...
Despite the present artificial demand for silver, chances are the taxpayer will pay more & more to the greedy Silver Bloc as time goes on. After World War I the world price of silver dropped from $1.37 ½ to 24 ½? an ounce (in 1932). If that happens again, taxpayers and manufacturers will have to boost their ante to the Bloc from 19.4? to 66? an ounce...