Word: silver
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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...
...surgeon from Hamburg, Germany, but nothing came of that betrothal. The name of Mme. Pons began to be obbligatoed by that of balding, businesslike, Russian-born Mr. Kostelanetz. Lengthy was Kosty's courtship, during which he crossed the continent so often that U. S. airlines gave him a silver mug as their No. 1 passenger. He also dispatched to Singer Pons, in Hollywood, a 300-lb. piano...
...manage its new plant, the Golden Gate Turf Club has hired silver-tongued Edward P. ("Slip") Madigan, longtime football coach at St. Mary's College. Slip Madigan knows no more about horse racing than the average $2 better. But neither did Dr. Charles H. Strub, the ex-dentist whose managerial genius made Santa Anita the most fabulous race track in the U. S. If Madigan can do as good a job for Golden Gate Park as he did for little St. Mary's, he will be well worth his $15,000-a-year salary...
...tall, hearty man of military bearing is Sir Keith Murdoch, now 54. He lives in a big U. S. Colonial home outside Melbourne, owns a couple of sheep stations (ranches), collects paintings, silver, glass, Chinese ceramics. Born in Melbourne, son of a Presbyterian minister, Murdoch (not knighted till 1933) was doing pretty well as manager of a press cable service when he set out as a correspondent for the war in 1915. But he got his real start as an Empire bigwig when he landed in Britain, handed Lloyd George a confidential report on conditions in Gallipoli. Soon...
Leadville, Colo. (pop. 4,774), self-advertised world's highest incorporated city, has seen some fancy goings on from its perch two miles up in the Rocky Mountains. Since the discovery of silver touched off an avalanche of fortune seekers in 1878, its mines have yielded some $600 million in silver, gold, lead, zinc, copper, manganese. Today it is still a rowdy, frontier mining town. Queen of its night life is the Pastime's Blonde Bobbie, who relaxes at the piano between rounds, amazes customers with a repertoire ranging from blues to classics (all played...