Word: golding
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Chou's job was not to be envied. His currency had almost no gold, little silver, no foreign exchange behind it. Chungking currency, with which he will have to compete, is specifically backed by half of the recent $100,000,000 loan from the U. S. Government. One interesting solution Mr. Chou had already devised. He put into circulation bank notes which were exact counterfeits of Chungking currency except for the signatures...
This week, on Saturday afternoon, Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera will loop heavenward its new $13,000 gold curtain, revealing an inner curtain painted like a picture book. On the book is a likeness of Soprano Lily Pons, in red-white-&-blue uniform and cocked hat, surrounded by Alps and military symbols...
Such tastes make for publicity, and the U. S. press has faithfully reported Lily Pons's comings & goings, her decorations and honors. She is a Chevalier of the French Legion of Honor, holds Belgium's Order of the Crown, the Gold Medal of the City Paris, a certificate as honorary consul of Cannes, an honorary inspectorship in the Connecticut Department of Motor Vehicles. Three flowers, a South American race horse, a restaurant, a Boston & Maine locomotive and a New Jersey Central streamlined train have been named for her. Los Angeles and Norwalk, Conn. have celebrated Lily Pons days...
Confident that it has a gold mine in Gaston, Chateau Martin has introduced a domestic champagne for him to swoon over...
...this plant-doubling, Aluminum Co. set aside $150,000,000 of its own money, earned 1940's gold medal for silent, voluntary expansion for the Defense program. Its soft-shirted, soft-voiced management took the Revolution in its stride. When a new TVA appropriation came up last summer. Aluminum men, who knew they would need extra kilowatts if Defense lasted, helped the Administration lobby it through Congress. Yet the year's end found even Aluminum, Co. behind on deliveries. Sadly it prepared an advertising campaign for the peacetime customers it wants to keep. The copy: "If you find...