Word: gold
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...allow for "squeeze" have held up and reduced the shipment of goods, have helped stifle the development of China's interior provinces.* Lest U. S. and other foreign exporters grow too exuberant, Finance Minister Soong announced at the same time that the government must have $40,000,000 (gold) more revenue annually, that the Chinese tariff would be raised either Jan. 1 or Feb. 1. Unofficial rumors gave the new rates as: From To Wine and rolled tobacco.27.5%, 50% Automobiles 12.5 17.5 Wool, woolen goods 15. 17-5 Silk goods...
Reporters interviewed a leading samisen manufacturer of Tokyo, found him smiling toothily behind gold-rimmed spectacles, willing to admit that he was the prime mover for the erection of the dog & cat placater...
...limit production. Silver. An abrupt decline in silver has accompanied the drop in other metals, but this is due more to developments in the currency situation. Last week Irving Trust Co. blamed Great Britain for the drop in silver, saying it was caused by putting India on a gold standard. Causes? Great economists differ on the question of whether the World Depression was caused by the crash of U. S. stockmarkets, or whether the latter merely foresaw the business trend.* Similarly, an endless debate goes on concerning the problem of whether Over-Production was a cause of the Depression...
...legend about this small man, her double cousin to whom she has been married for 14 years.∙ She knows that popular imagination makes of him a hero who works in a solitary study mixing mathematical equations to get Truth as old-time alchemists mixed base metals to obtain Gold. She also knows that der Professor is afraid of and troubled by the world which makes a hero...
...were published. First on the list was this name: His Exalted Highness Asaf Jah Muzaf-far-ul-Mulk-Wal-Mamalik Nizam-ul-Mulk Nizam-ud-Daula, Nawab Mir Sir Usman Ali Khan Bahadur Fateh Jung, 44, the Nizam of Hyderabad in India (TIME, Nov. 24). His wealth in gold bricks and coins is estimated at $1,000,000,000. His wealth in jewels is uncounted. Second on the list comes John Davison Rockefeller Jr. He is followed by Henry and Edsel Bryant Ford; next is John Pierpont Morgan. Below this quintet come Sir Basil Zaharoff and His Highness Sir Sayaji...