... state.
35
The Investor, 19 January 1901, pp. 65 66, cited in Etherington, Theories
of Imperialism, p. 17. Also ibid., pp. 7–23.
36
Parrini and Sklar, “New Thinking,” p. 56 5, n. 16.
254 A History of Money ... Jacobson Schwartz,
A Monetary History of the United States, 1867–1960 (Princeton, N.J.:
National Bureau of Economic Research, 1963), pp. 148 56 .
224 A History of...
... who wanted government to pour new money into
45
Chernow, House of Morgan, pp. 330–36, 358 59 ; Rothbard, America’s
Great Depression, p. 289.
284 A History of Money and Banking in the United States:
The ... our history to offer federal leadership in mobilizing
the economic resources of the people.” Hoover recalls it was a
“program unparalleled in the history of depressions....
... processes of cutting punches of brass or copper and later of iron,
each of a single letter; the stamping of the punches into copper plate to form the
moulds into which the molten type metal of tin, ... Pisa
marked the start of the use of the pendulum as a means of controlling the speed
of clocks. Having no watch, he timed the swing of the lamp against his own
pulse and e...
... light of their behaviour—including, of course, their linguistic behaviour—and their environment. The point of the
notion of sense—what the content-specifying component of a total theory of that ... with the ordinary
meanings of the words in the metaphor, it does end up envisaging what might be thought of as a meaning shift, not of
the whole sentence but of certain of its...
... of these methods:
>>> import os.path
>>> os.path.getsize(‘testfile’)
47L
>>> os.path.getatime(‘testfile’)
100 653 51 65
>>> os.path.getmtime(‘testfile’)
100 654 1232
Other ... determine the existence of
path names, directories, and files. Table 7 .5 describes the important methods of the
inquiry category.
Table 7 .5 The Inquiry Category Methods of...
... dollar was defined as both a weight of
371. 25 grains of pure silver and/or a weight of 24. 75 grains of
pure gold—a fixed ratio of 15 grains of silver to 1 grain of
gold.
26
Anyone could bring gold ... 1830
to $ 159 million in 1833, an increase of 45. 9 percent, or an annual
rise of 15. 3 percent. Breaking the figures down further, the total
money supply had risen fro...
... “dollar of our fathers” and the standard currency of
the day, remained fixed in value. Laughlin, History of Bimetallism, p. 70.
A History of Money and Banking in the United States 1 35
Before ... Act of 1792 established a
bimetallic system in which the dollar was defined as equaling
both 371. 25 grains of pure silver and 24. 75 grains of pure
gold—a fixed weight ratio...
... the gold reserves, and the panic of 1893, see
Friedman and Schwartz, Monetary History, pp. 104–33, 7 05.
155
Ibid., Monetary History, pp. 113–19.
154 A History of Money and Banking in the United ... rise
of Bryanism to the price contraction of the last three decades of
the nineteenth century, and the triumph of gold and disappear-
ance of the money issue to the price r...
... a multiple of gold reserves,
this expansion of the already engorged top of the inverted
354 A History of Money and Banking in the United States:
The Colonial Era to World War II
1 953 ), pp. 229–61; ... be profitable in a rising stock market.
57
57
The Roosevelt administration was embarrassed by the appearance on
the Morgan preferred list of its secretary of the Treasury,...