Word: hoard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...take from our gold hoard of $15,000,000,000 the sum of $5,000,000,000 and with this sum sit into a conference of nations to redistribute the sources of raw materials...
...There will never again be so fruitful an opportunity to put our gold hoard to work in the interest of humanity in general and ourselves in particular...
...crop. For if there was anything the U. S. apparently did not need, that thing was more cotton. Hanging over the market was an enormous carryover of 13,000,000 bales, twice as much as the U. S. would use in a busy year. The major part of this hoard-11,250,000 bales, 5,625,000,000 pounds-lies in warehouses in the South, assigned to the Government for "loans" in hock to the U. S. taxpayer, who is paying $123,000 a day to keep it in out of the rain. If it were to be shared equally...
...probable site of Armageddon by Harold Haydon Nelson of the University of Chicago, and the university's Rockefeller-endowed Oriental Institute started digging there in 1925. The diggers found the palace of the Egyptian princes with a gaudily painted court and a washroom paved with seashells; a rich hoard of art objects in gold, ivory, lapis lazuli and electrum (gold-silver alloy); an inscription of the Pharaoh Shishak who plundered Jerusalem; and stables built by King Solomon large enough to house 300 horses...
...great private collections surviving in America,* Mr. Hearst's hoard of treasure is probably the most heterogeneous ever amassed by one man. Collector Hearst began in 1891 with English Staffordshire furniture and continued for 47 years to gorge a Gargantuan appetite for possessions. Housed at San Simeon, at Sands Point, L. I., in Manhattan, at St. Donat's and in the Hearst warehouses, his hodgepodge includes thousands of pieces of furniture, tapestries, armor, and hundreds of paintings including a few estimable Bouchers, Van Dycks, Rembrandts. Corrected by precise Agent Parish-Watson last week was the New Yorker...