Word: stagnant
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...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...
Silver flowed into the Treasury's vaults until by 1942 they held a huge, stagnant reservoir of 98,800 short tons. Results: As the world silver price climbed, China went off the silver standard; other nations reduced the amount of silver in their coins. Silver sellers the world over had a long and profitable ride, paid for by the U.S. taxpayer...
...foretold his future when he resigned his position as Treasure representative at the Versailles Conference that he might oppose the ridiculous economic burdens being placed upon a prostrate Germany. An acquaintance with his work shows a man who labored unceasingly to develop a method of escape for a stagnant society...
Beyond a forceful presentation of his political views, Shaw has written a first-rate play. Not only is it an excellent, if colored, version of the intrigue behind the assassination of Darlan, but Shaw has used the best features of melodrama without its stagnant sentimentality and typed characterization...
...need for both coffins and prayers increased because the people trusted garlic (almost unobtainable at $20 to $50 a stem), and red paper crosses pinned on their doors to prevent cholera. Others found a rooster tied to a corpse more efficacious. Many heard that a stagnant pool behind a certain temple would save them, and the police had to drive away would-be drinkers...