Prefabricated Buildings. Modular buildings, commonly called prefabricated buildings, are made from all the same materials and meet all the same building International Building Codes (IBC) as conventionally built structures. The difference is the process.
Gold Standard Act. The Gold Standard Act of the United States was passed in 1900 (approved on March 14) and established gold as the only standard for redeeming paper money, stopping bimetallism (which had allowed silver in exchange for gold). It was signed by President William McKinley.
Gold standard is a historical term borrowed from economists. It signifies a monetary standard, under which the basic unit of currency was defined by a stated quantity of gold. The analogy should be clear: the value of each country's method of payment (currency) was weighed against the gold standard, which made it possible to compare these different currencies for international trading.