Word: hoard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...slatternly housekeeper named Maia, four dogs, a secret hoard of gold, a deep contempt for himself and his hypocritical colleagues, bitter memories of his wife and of the day he lost her, of when he once entered a crowded room. saw her talking with another man, and felt that people were smiling...
James Smithson's original bequest amounted to $508,318.46. Other endow ments, increase of investment values, savings from income, etc. have swelled this hoard to $1,808,000. In 1919 the will of Charles L. Freer of Detroit provided nearly $2,000,000 to manage the art collections which he had already donated and housed next door to the Institution head quarters. This has increased to $4,770,000 bringing the total of the Smithsonian's investments to $6,577,000. Of this, $1,000,000 is deposited in the Treasury and draws 6% by law; the rest...
...hold territory populated by 15,000.000 Spaniards, with the remaining 8,000.000 in White territory. Putting this another way, the Whites declared that of Spain's 50 provinces they held last week 27 against 22 held by the Government. Because the world's fourth largest gold hoard, $400,000,000, is salted down in the vaults of Madrid's Bank of Spain, eminent Socialist Leader Indalecio Prieto boasted: "The Government will win because we have money, money and still more money!" With all Madrid newsorgans now in Government hands, substantial citizens of the capital read some strange...
...Founded in 1800 by Napoleon, the Bank of France is not only a sacred symbol of French capitalism; it is to an astonishing degree French capitalism itself. It is a private institution owned by more than 40,000 stockholders. Yet it holds all of France's enormous gold hoard except that privately stored in mattresses and old socks. The French Government owns not a centime of monetary metal. The Bank of France has the sole privilege of issuing bank notes, banks the Government's money, is always one of the biggest creditors of the French Govern ment...
First company to comply with the Stock Exchange's suggestion was the biggest company listed on the Hoard, American Telephone & Telegraph. President Walter Sherman Gifford told the 350 A. T. & T. stockholders who turned out for the annual meeting in Manhattan last week that their company's profits for the twelve months through March 1936 were $130,000,000 compared to $118,000,000 for the same period through March 1935. Those figures were not for the entire Bell System, earnings of which were reported only through February. But to find out what the parent company...