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Word: bridgework (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Boston a couple of newlyweds sold off their incomplete sterling silver dinner service because they did not want to pay the high price to buy the missing pieces. In New York a schoolgirl sold her father's old gold bridgework to help pay her way through college; an elderly widow sold her gold jewelry piece by piece; and one woman recently traded in her gold I.U.D. In Los Angeles Dealer Schwary reported buying everything from a three-foot-high silver trophy awarded in a 1930s auto race to Vietnamese taels, ultrathin gold pieces the size of calling cards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Great Sell-Off | 1/14/1980 | See Source »

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