Word: silver
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Major General Joseph Sladen Bradley, 60, who won the Silver Star at New Guinea's Buna Beach in World War II, commanded the 25th Division during its drive into North Korea in 1951; of cancer; in Walter Reed Army Hospital...
Recoining the Franc. Thus far Treasury officials have been happy to get rid of all the silver they can. They are not worried by London fears that the U.S. will run out of silver in the next few years. The U.S. still has 122 million oz. in its free silver vaults-over and above its vast monetary reserves. Although the mint dips into the free silver stocks for some 40 million oz. for new coins each year, the Treasury can always stop selling silver if its stocks drop dangerously low. The Treasury argues that special circumstances have recently affected both...
...price has risen above the official price, the Purchase Act's provisions have backfired. Where once the Treasury kept the price artificially high by buying at 90½? per oz., now the Treasury is keeping the price artificially low, since it sells at nearly the same price. The Silver Bloc no longer seems powerful enough to persuade Congress to raise the official price again-partly because of the opposition of the growing number of new industrial silver users (industry and jewelers use about 100 million oz. of silver a year). The result is a silver stalemate that makes...
...following a brain operation; in Dublin. From 1917 to 1929 Fitzgerald (real name: William Joseph Shields) led a double life as a bookkeeper for the Dublin Board of Trade by day, by evening an Abbey player in ever-fatter roles. Then famed Playwright Sean O'Casey wrote The Silver Tassie, and Fitzgerald opened it in London as a fulltime actor, quickly became the vogue in brogue. His Hollywood zenith came in 1945, when he won an Oscar for his supporting role as a cantankerous but lovable old priest in Going...
...Home. An adaptation of James Agee's novel, A Death in the Family, that offers more small coins of pure silver and less stage money than any other American play this season...