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...Silver Hoard. With this guaranteed subsidy, U.S. silver producers overproduced, and the Treasury was forced to spend hundreds of millions collecting silver. By 1943 the U.S. had a gigantic silver hoard of over a billion ounces. It had so little use for it that during the war the Treasury lent some to private industry for such mundane purposes as electric-conducting bus bars in aluminum plants...
...Evening with Mike Nichols and Elaine May. Aiming their common hoard of satire at the common herd, the freewheeling improvisationists produce many happy surprises and considerable hilarity...
...drain unused Marshall Plan counterpart funds and the federal government's own customary budget surplus. Still another source: sale to the public of $125 million in shares in the Government-owned Volkswagen works, whose sales abroad have made a mighty contribution to West Germany's foreign exchange hoard. The new aid, announced Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard, would be offered to underdeveloped countries at low interest and over a long term; unlike past German pinch-pfennig credits, it will not be "tied," i.e., need not be spent exclusively for German exports...
...American family, that's the astounding total you're now supposed to be holding in CASH. The statistics are indisputable, unassailable." After this arresting lead, guaranteed to nail the typical American reader, she led a quick tour of a difficult subject: a report on the national currency hoard...
Montgomery Ward then began an expansion program that used up Avery's hoard. Last August, Avery could draw a measure of quiet satisfaction from the fact that Ward's new free-spending management, faced with six-month earnings of $5,000,000 v. $10 million the first half of 1959, had to halve Ward's quarterly dividend. Last week, just a few days be- fore his 87th birthday, Sewell Avery died of a cerebral hemorrhage...