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Show THE CINDERELLA METAL To a people which has always regarded "money" as being synonymous with "gold" it may come as something of a surprise sur-prise to know that silver comes closer to being an international medium of exchange than does the rarer metal. All the oriental nations are silver-standard nations and they "represent half the world's population. So are a number of South American and European countries. France alone, of the great powers, holds to the gold standard at the moment. That is why world economists, public and private, are tall ing so much about silver. And that is why a mounting number of authorities believe its stabilization to be an essential of recovery. re-covery. n |