Word: silver
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...could pick up his appointment to the class of 1933 at Annapolis. He was a Navy pilot at Pearl Harbor when the Japanese struck, came out of the war an authentic hero with a boxful of medals, including the Purple Heart, Legion of Merit, Distinguished Flying Cross, and the Silver Star...
...national silver hoard declined by 23% last year, and a conspicuous symptom that the trouble is continuing is the nagging shortage of U.S. coins. Last week the U.S. Treasury told a congressional subcommittee, which is brooding over ways to ease the shortage, that the Government may well have to alter the 90% silver content of dimes, quarters and halves. This has led powerful business groups into the greatest debate over silver since William Jennings Bryan cried out for the silver interests in his 1896 "Cross of Gold" peroration...
Pinch & Price. The shortage is acute simply because silver has become an increasingly important commodity. It is in rising demand in industry for use in making silverware, jewelry, missile parts and, most important, silver halide camera film. At the same time, the fast growth of retail trade, notably in the $3.5 billion-a-year vending machine industry, has brought an unprecedented demand for coins. U.S. mints have tripled their output since 1962, but they cannot meet demand. Everybody feels the pinch: Las Vegas gambling operators have reluctantly substituted plastic chips for shining stacks of silver dollars; bankers in several cities...
...York City's brand-new subway was hailed as the growing edge of progress in 1904, when the first train pulled out of City Hall Station with the mayor at its sterling-silver throttle and a load of top-hatted dignitaries who made the nine-mile run to 145th Street and Broadway in 26 minutes. Today, the littered cars, clashing and swaying through the underground dark, packed torso to torso or eerie with emptiness, have increasingly become hunting grounds for the city's sick and sinister creatures of prey. Complaints of major crimes increased 9% in the city...
...twelve towns of the diocese of Georgia, which covers the southern part of the state. "We are trying to present a rational, meaningful exposition of the New Testament faith," said Archdeacon Alfred Mead. Montana's Episcopal Bishop Chandler Sterling, 54, a hearty churchman sporting a silver cowboy buckle on his robes, agreed: "It's time to sweep away old stories and make the Gospels intelligible against the background of today...