Download or read book The Federal Reserve System After Fifty Years written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking and Currency and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nazi Gold written by Tom Bower and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1997 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Treasury Department - Sam Klaus, Orvis Schmidt, James Mann, and Seymour Rubin, to name a few - who struggled tirelessly for many years following World War II, with little support from the British and French, to get the Swiss to release the deposits to the rightful owners or their heirs.
Download or read book Curse of the Black Gold written by Michael Watts and published by . This book was released on 2008-05-13 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nigeria is the sixth largest producer of oil in the world and one of the major suppliers of oil to the US. Set against a backdrop of what has been called the scramble for African oil, this text documents the consequences of a half-century of oil exploitation and production in one of the world's foremost centres of biodiversity.
Download or read book A Global History of Gold Rushes written by Benjamin Mountford and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nothing set the world in motion like gold. Between the discovery of California placer gold in 1848 and the rush to Alaska fifty years later, the search for the precious yellow metal accelerated worldwide circulations of people, goods, capital, and technologies. A Global History of Gold Rushes brings together historians of the United States, Africa, Australasia, and the Pacific World to tell the rich story of these nineteenth century gold rushes from a global perspective. Gold was central to the growth of capitalism: it whetted the appetites of empire builders, mobilized the integration of global markets and economies, profoundly affected the environment, and transformed large-scale migration patterns. Together these essays tell the story of fifty years that changed the world.
Download or read book The Federal Reserve System After Fifty Years written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking and Currency. Subcommittee on Domestic Finance and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 2290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Running for Black Gold written by Kevin Lillis and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Documents in both text and statistics African dominance in the middle and long distance events in international athletics competition, highlighting the successes of over 100 male and female athletes, their gold medals and world records. Kevin Lillis focuses on the on-track performances of these athletes at the Olympic Games and the IAAF World Championships exclusively.
Download or read book The Economic Development of the Argentine Republic in the Last Fifty Years written by Tornquist, Ernesto & cia, limitada, Buenos Aires and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Age of Gold written by H. W. Brands and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2008-12-10 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, bestselling historian, and author of Our First Civil War—the epic story of the California Gold Rush, “a fine, robust telling of one of the greatest adventure stories in history" (David McCullough, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of John Adams). The California Gold Rush inspired a new American dream—the “dream of instant wealth, won by audacity and good luck.” The discovery of gold on the American River in 1848 triggered the most astonishing mass movement of peoples since the Crusades. It drew fortune-seekers from the ends of the earth, accelerated America’s imperial expansion, and exacerbated the tensions that exploded in the Civil War. H.W. Brands tells his epic story from multiple perspectives: of adventurers John and Jessie Fremont, entrepreneur Leland Stanford, and the wry observer Samuel Clemens—side by side with prospectors, soldiers, and scoundrels. He imparts a visceral sense of the distances they traveled, the suffering they endured, and the fortunes they made and lost. Impressive in its scholarship and overflowing with life, The Age of Gold is history in the grand traditions of Stephen Ambrose and David McCullough.
Download or read book Fifty Years in Wall Street written by Henry Clews and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2006-05-10 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive look at Wall Street in the 19th Century Perhaps the 19th century's best book on Wall Street, Fifty Years in Wall Street provides a fascinating look at the financial markets during a period of rapid economic expansion. Henry Clews was a giant figure in finance at that time, and his firsthand account brings this colorful era to life like never before. He reveals shocking stories of political and economic manipulation and how he helped bring down the mighty Boss Tweed. He writes eloquently about the madness of the markets and how the era's greatest speculators amassed their fortunes. This book provides an expansive view of Wall Street in an era of little regulation, rampant political corruption, and rapid financial change. Henry Clews was born in England in 1836 and emigrated to the United States in 1850. In 1859, he cofounded what became the second largest marketer of federal bonds during the Civil War. Later, he organized the "Committee of 70," which deposed the corrupt Tweed Ring in New York City, and served as an economic consultant to President Ulysses Grant.
Download or read book The Golden Rule written by and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 1092 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)
Download or read book Auraria written by E. Merton Coulter and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first gold rush in American history occurred in north Georgia; it preceded the mining booms in the West by almost two decades. Published in 1956, Auraria tells the story of the mining town at the center of Georgia's gold frenzy. Auraria, which reached its zenith in the 1830s, eventually faded into a ghost town by the twentieth century. E. Merton Coulter gives readers more than a local study by placing Auraria's fascinating story in the context of larger regional and national developments.
Download or read book Behind the Gold Curtain written by David Berkowitz and published by Birch Brook Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BEHIND THE GOLD CURTAIN: 50 YEARS IN THE METROPOLITAN OPERA ORCHESTRA, a reminiscence by David Berkowitz in collaboration with Dolores Soyer. A violist in the Met's legendary orchestra for half a century, Berkowitz relives the trials and triumphs of the orchestra, from labor troubles to world-wide acclaim. A fascinating view of what makes Grand Opera tick.
Download or read book The National Provisioner written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 1154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gold Warriors written by Peggy Seagrave and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1945, US intelligence officers in Manila discovered that the Japanese had hidden large quantities of gold bullion and other looted treasure in the Philippines. President Truman decided to recover the gold but to keep its riches secret. These, combined with Japanese treasure recovered during the US occupation, and with recovered Nazi loot, would create a worldwide American political action fund to fight communism. This 'Black Gold' gave Washington virtually limitless, unaccountable funds, providing an asset base to reinforce the treasuries of America's allies, to bribe political and military leaders, and to manipulate elections in foreign countries for more than fifty years.
Download or read book Fifty years in China written by S.I. Woodbridge and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on 1918 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty years in China being an account of the history and conditions in China and of the missions of the Presbyterian Church in the United States there from 1867 to the present day
Download or read book Delen Close written by George Crosby and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-09 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dutch born Otto Vogel and German born Benno Schumacher became friends in their youth as they worked side by side in South Africa in the late 1950's. In later years greed gnawed away at their friendship and the discovery of the role their father played during World War II adds to the erosion. Greed and anger killed the fathers. A secret letter discovered by Otto in 1994 reopens the events of World War II that will cause Otto and Benno even more anguish. Three apparently unrelated murders are eventually threaded together by Bill Reardon, a plodding New York City Detective. This is the final trigger that leads to the solution of one of the last major mysteries of Holocaust wealth that had been lost for fifty years.
