Word: standard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week arranged to obtain by revaluing its gold. Introduced by Sir John Simon in the House of Commons was a bill to allow the Government to revalue each week, at the current market price, the gold holdings of the Bank of England. Since Britain went off the gold standard in 1931 this gold has been carried at the old parity of 855. per ounce. Gold was last week selling at 148½. per ounce in the open market. At the old figure the Bank's gold holdings amounted to only ?126,000,000. Revaluation would...
...longtime Ambassador to France of King Alfonso XIII, M. Berard would say only that he was going to Burgos to "settle some questions with good neighbors." Obviously referring to British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's appeasement trips, he pointed slyly to an umbrella he was carrying, called it "standard equipment on the kind of trip I am making...
...Chinese the art of music is distinctly old stuff. In 2600 B. C., when the skin-clad savages of Europe were tootling shinbone flutes and walloping tomtoms, China's cultured Emperor Huang-ti established a standard scale for all China's musical instruments. When the T'ang Dynasty passed out in 907 A. D., Chinese music declined somewhat. But cultivated Chinese have always regarded music as one of China's most important arts...
Burns's good behavior may entail testifying against Rival Comedian Jack Benny this month. Likeliest winner in any of the actions is Rosa, the Lauer maid, since standard U. S. pay to tattletales who snitch on smugglers is a quarter of the fines collected...
TIME'S Index competes with none of these standard indexes but seeks rather to appraise the factors underlying the business activity they record. This is done by analyzing the weekly Federal Reserve Board banking figures just as an accountant would analyze a corporation statement. Prime clues to a corporation's intrinsic soundness are such financial factors as its working capital position, its sales to inventory ratio, the quality of its so-called assets. The soundness of U. S. business as a whole is similarly reflected in the nation's banking figures...