Word: wampum
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Search. When the U.S. Generals took off from Cairo with their wampum, they naturally assumed the King was in his capital. But when they arrived at Abadan on the Persian Gulf, the Generals learned that the King had gone ahunting. By the time they spotted Ibn Saud's party they had wandered 1,100-odd air miles...
...years after the early Dutch settlers ruined the scarcity value of wampum by mass-producing shells with holes in them, there was almost no money. The U.S. Mint did not get started till ten years after Independence, and even in 1795 produced less than 4? of currency per capita.* For years currency in different parts of the country included tobacco, coonskins, honey, wild turkey and venison. Peace with England cut off many profitable early sources of income, most notably "legalized" privateering, which had formerly employed more men than there were in George Washington's entire army...
...some 168 billion points. The big figure brings little cheer to the grocery trade. Grocers will handle a smaller volume of goods than last year. And doing business on point currency is 1) expensive, 2) complicated. It adds to a highly complex money economy the rules of trading in wampum or sea shells...
They are packing up their Egyptian mummies and stowing them away in dark vaults. They are dismantling their dinosaur skeletons and hiding them again in the earth. They are locking dead cockroaches in safes. They have rented a bank to safeguard their Indian wampum. In all the great science museums along the U.S. coasts, curators are busy as Noahs, threatened by the flood...
Wenches with warts want Willkie. Wampum wardens won't wager Willkie will win. Wealthy werewolves whine, wheedle whimsical, wily words. Winsome Willkie's worried wretches watch wonderingly while Wendell's wide wagon wabbles, wavers, wriggles weakly, weirdly wrecks. Willkie's wailing, wild words won't worry worthy workers, wives, widows, workless. Whooping windbag, Willkie wallops will-o'-wisps. Workingmen want work. Wayfarers, watchmen: warn wireless "Willkie...