gold basis
Americannoun
noun
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In Colombia, harassed President Olaya Herrera decided that his country's burdens are too great to bear on a gold basis.
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Prime Minister Richard Bedford Bennett of Canada announced that no matter what Britain did, Canada would remain on a gold basis.
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Moreover, the Union's House of Assembly passed 78 to 53 last week the Emergency Finance Bill brought in by Finance Minister Nicolaas Christiaan Havenga expressly to keep South Africa's currency on a gold basis.
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Many a Wall Streeter with little to do except swap stories was rumoring that Lloyd's of London has wagered one to three that within six months the U. S. would abandon the gold basis.
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This is also indicated by the expansion of her paper money and her efforts to maintain the gold basis under that paper.
From The Audacious War by Barron, Clarence W. (Clarence Walker)
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