Word: sunless
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Dates: during 1942-1942
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...Lying in sunless crypts at West Point and elsewhere are some 86,000 tons of Treasury silver, U.S. and foreign. Its average cost to the Treasury was around 50? an ounce. To pay for it, the Treasury in effect manufactures paper money known as silver certificates, familiar to the public as $1, $5 and $10 bills. Each ounce of silver becomes $1.29 in paper money. This monetary magic permits the Treasury to use only a part of its silver as backing for certificates. The balance, called seigniorage or "free silver," amounts to some 40,000 tons. This the Treasury...
Still the biggest Sun headache is distribution, with home deliveries a migraine case. Suburban areas are practically Sunless. Dealers tell their customers they are "trying" to get the Sun, while roadmen report large bundles not even opened. Suburban Chicago custom is to deliver papers at the back door. The Sun is left, when it is left at all, at the front door. When one Winnetka housewife asked for back-door delivery, the newsboy said he couldn't do it because the back stoop belonged to the Tribune...