Word: upper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dollar would have a value of between 50? and 60?. Immediately after the President's message was read the Treasury boosted the domestic gold price which for 21 business days had stood still at $34.06 an ounce (60⅔? dollar) to $34.45-or a 60? dollar, the upper limit set, announced that future purchases would be made not by the RFC but by the New York Federal Reserve Bank for the Treasury. The monetary gold stock of the U. S. including the gold to be taken from the Reserve Banks is $4,300,000,000. So the "profit...
Master Mariner Flavel M. Williams last week loped happily down the gangplank of the United States liner Manhattan, back from Bermuda. His "fog camera," tested during the cruise under his supervision, was to remain on the Manhattan's upper bridge as regular equipment, was slated for installation on the Manhattan's sister ship Washington...
...newly elected chairmen met last night and decided to initiate competitions for the various Boards at a meeting to be held tomorrow evening at 7 o'clock in the upper common room of the Union. The Chairmen urge all Freshmen who are interested in trying out for the Red Book staff to attend. No experience will be required for any of the Boards. The staff, according to the Editor-in-chief, will, however, be smaller than usual, so that "the competitions will be more intense and the honor of being a member will be greater." At the meeting tomorrow night...
...several years ago after observing the success it had met with at Harvard. One is that the intense class spirit that was so prevalent in my day has now almost vanished. No longer are a student's friends confined to his own class, but they are scattered among the upper three classes. In my time one very seldom made close contact with anyone unless he was of the same class. The other outstanding change, is the amalgamation of the Sheffield Scientific School with the academic college...
...Things are surely different in Germany now. The lower classes are being raised without permitting the upper classes to be leveled down-which is real Socialism...