Word: metallically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...zinc. Today with copper in world markets about 7? per Ib. and hard to sell at that, the great Whitney promotion market-wise has a somewhat golden appeal. With gold at $35 per oz. nearly one half of its revenues last year were in the yellow metal...
...Such coins, considered the only sound money by natives on both sides of the Red Sea, are disparagingly said by bankers to "bear no obligation of redemption." Being worth always exactly the value of the metal they contain, Maria Theresa dollars therefore cannot be devalued by any unscrupulous currency jugglers. With a standard content of 28.0668 grams of silver .8333 fine, the Maria Theresa dollar was worth in U. S. money 19? in January 1933 just before Calvin Coolidgc's death, 26? in May after President Roosevelt took the U. S. dollar off gold, and 53? today after...
Pretty, angry-mouthed Grace Greenwood, 27, undertook to slap the theme of Motiey on two walls of the main lobby. Her first panel takes money from mine to mint, shows Mexican laborers drilling, digging, trucking ore; smelters refining and casting the metal; and finally, a porcine bureaucrat receiving and counting the bars. Last week Grace Greenwood finished drawing the design on the second wall, taking money from mint to rich man's pocket...
...wing monoplane with retractable landing gear, the new bomber is of three-ply all-metal construction. It is powered with four 800-h.p. Pratt & Whitney Twin Wasps-first Army or Navy craft to have more than three motors. The motors are two to a side, streamlined into the high- camber cantilever wing. While the Boeing's fuselage is designed to carry bomb-racks, it would need but slight modification to become a commercial airliner...
...four minutes instead of the customary hour. Instead of the usual acid bath, the Howey machine employs a photoelectric eye which scans the photograph. The impulses from the electric eye actuate a cutting tool which etches the lights & shades of the picture into a revolving half-cylinder of metal...