The Treasury Department would buy the silver with new paper money that could be exchanged for silver or gold.
VOA: special.2010.06.17
The great wealth taken from the gold and silver mines was usually invested in other businesses: shipping,railroads,factories, stores,land companies.
VOA: special.2010.03.18
The supplies you will need are sterling silver wire,round-nosed pliers, flat-nosed pliers,flat-nosed pliers with a tip, and flush cutters."
VOA: special.2009.05.18
A protective coating of colloidal silver is painted on the inside and outside of the filter to kill bacteria.
VOA: special.2009.06.22
This left even less gold and silver to exchange for the huge amounts of paper money the banks had issued.
VOA: special.2009.01.01
In eighteen ninety, when the Silver Purchase Act was passed, the government held almost two hundred ninety million dollars in gold.
VOA: special.2010.06.17
Everyone wanted gold. They took their paper money and their silver to the government and exchanged them for gold.
VOA: special.2010.06.17
If westerners voted for the tariff measure, then eastern lawmakers would support a silver purchase bill that the westerners wanted.
VOA: special.2010.06.03
All of them produced large amounts of paper money -- many times the amount they could exchange for gold or silver.
VOA: special.2009.01.01
However,putting a silver sixpence inside a shoe is generally not a tradition followed by brides in the United States.
VOA: special.2011.07.15
As the policeman shakes Harpo's hand, you can hear pieces of silver that Harpo has stolen fall out of his clothes.
VOA: special.2009.07.19
The United States did,too. In eighteen seventy-three, Congress passed a law that stopped the government from using silver as money.
VOA: special.2010.06.17
Sylvie felt as if she were a part of the gray shadows and the silver leaves that moved in the evening breeze.
VOA: special.2010.04.03
Clouds with extremely cool water are mixed with man-made ice crystals, such as silver iodide and metaldehyde crystals.
VOA: special.2011.01.11
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