Word: gold
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...India's princely spendthrifts a miser who is inordinately stingy with elephants for State durbars and who rides around in an old touring car while other less prosperous maharajas sport dozens of custom-built limousines. Thus he has amassed a fortune which includes treasure houses filled with gold, jewels, ivory carvings, antiques, not to mention a railroad or so, a few mines, stocks & bonds. He has often been called the world's richest...
Sinkiang Province (area: 705,769 sq. mi.; population: 4,360,000), sometimes called Chinese Turkestan, is a fairly rich, comparatively unexploited, thoroughly exotic area. Its principal exports have been wool, camel's-hair, sheep guts, gold, jade, fine horses, Chinese medicinal ingredients (elk horn, saiga antelope horn, bears' paws). The huge province has never been properly integrated with China, and since about 1930, Russian influence has almost amounted to domination. Since economically Sinkiang is already virtually a Russian province, Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, no lover of Communists, may well have seen the sense of making concessions there...
...German order for internment there; after aimlessly riding the eastern Mediterranean in a Turkish boat for a week; after a brief stop in Syria; after traveling to France on a French naval vessel-after these weary wanderings a symbol arrived in Paris last week. It was solid and rare-gold in bars to the value of $80,000,000. But its real value was as a symbol of the solvency of the Polish Government, whose reconstituted Cabinet received the treasure in Paris. The Cabinet announced to the world that not an ounce of the gold would go for the Government...
...Poland's prominent refugees were as fortunate as the gold: > Still waiting to be released from internment in Rumania was 72-year-old former President Ignacy Moscicki. He has applied for permission to go to Fribourg, Switzerland, where he was once a chemistry professor. The Rumanian Government would gladly have released the old President, but the German Government objected, and Rumania just now fears crossing Germany...
Bermudians were sad about the war, but they were sadder to lose their good, gold-laden friends, the American tourists. Instead of arriving at an average rate of 5,000 per month, tourists scurried away from the Isles of Rest. On the Furness Monarch of Bermuda's, last trip-the ship was painted gloomy grey-she was loaded to the jack-stays with tourists hurrying home. Last week Bermudians were momentarily bucked to hear that the Holland-American luxury liner Nieuw Amsterdam (capacity 1,000) had taken over the suspended Furness, Withy & Co. contract, and was sailing from Manhattan...