Word: argument
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pressure. Most of it came from U.S. gold miners and such big gold-producing nations as Canada and South Africa. Their argument: at the present price of $35 an ounce, gold mining is unprofitable, and production is slumping. Furthermore, it is unfair to hold down the price of gold when all other commodities have risen...
...world's biggest gold buyer, the argument continued, the U.S. should raise its buying price to about $50 an ounce. Failing that, it should declare a free market in gold, i.e., drop the ban against citizens' buying, selling or owning gold, and cancel the requirement that miners sell only to the Federal Government. Producers confidently felt that freeing gold would boost the price, since it is now selling for as high as $70 an ounce in the free gold marts of India, China, France and more than a dozen other nations...
...Chicago, Napoleon Bonaparte, 56, quit the Rock Island railroad maintenance crew after 29 years. A Chinese gentleman in Canton divorced all four of his wives for "differences of opinion." And a man in a Cleveland tavern got into an argument with the bartender over a glass of beer, so he went outside, drove his car through the plate glass window, and parked in front...
...most serious argument at present centers over determining the quota of a club. University officials and some members of the inter-club committee feel that it is the responsibility of a club to take a quota proportionate to its size, and the size of the entire eligible student body. If every club did this, according to exponents of the compromise plan, the total number of students accepted would be 100 percent, while the clubs could at the same time have the right to choose whom they wish within that quota...
...villain of the piece, a Navy-hating senator, remarks that the burning and sinking of several carriers at the Coral Sea and Midway is not an argument for more carriers. As it happens, the most striking parts of this film show our carriers being severely damaged. The argument of the movie's admirals is that they intend to carry the war to the Japanese homeland; this never happens in the film, and in the actual war the Army Air Forces did some bombing too. If the movie settles the interservice conflict for you, there is a recruiting van full...