Word: tripping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nellie Taylor Ross, winsome Wyoming widow who once presided over all lady Democrats as Vice Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, now presides over all U. S. coinage & bullion as director of the Mint. Last month she made a trip to West Point to inspect the vast strong box she had had built in a corner of the Military Academy's reservation. Semi-sunken, its obdurate walls made of reinforced concrete, Mrs. Ross's strong box is to hold over a billion and a quarter dollars' worth of silver bullion purchased by the Treasury in Manhattan...
...discovered another powerful trade persuader. In 1937 the U. S. agreed to sell to Brazil gold up to a value of $60,000,000 to steady Brazilian exchange. Also helpful to U. S.-Brazilian trade was a joint commission suggested by President Roosevelt on his 1936 South American trip, formed last February of Brazilian and U. S. business...
Despite his expressed pro-capitalist opinions. Ambassador Davies showed an appreciation and open-mindedness about the country. On his last trip alone, Mr. Davies reportedly wrote 28 reports on Soviet building for the State Department's confidential files at Washington...
...being crushed in the ice if she remained in the river. For the captain, crew, passengers and the general manager of the company operating the Yukoner, her failure to reach Dawson was a catastrophe; in those gold-rush days a Yukon River steamer paid for itself in one trip and made a profit of $41,000 to boot...
Walter was the only person aboard the Yukoner who wholeheartedly enjoyed his trip. When the crew got out of jail in Dawson (the piracy case was allowed to die because of international complications), all members immediately went on a drunk, spent their year's wages. Because of complications arising from the bankruptcy, Walter was not paid. He did not mind...