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...stand relatively still. But no economist has brought forth a solid plan to reduce it. One thing this quarter's figures showed: even with no increase in nonwage income, the increase in wage-and-salary "gap money"-$17 billion-would still have added mightily to the hoard that threatens uncontrolled inflation...
...castigate farmers who hoard their grain for higher prices, the Kansas City Grain Market Review last week turned to the Bible, dug up a dire admonition: "He that withholdeth corn, the people shall curse him; but blessings shall be upon the head of him that selleth it." (Proverbs...
First international reactions were anything but reassuring. U.S. Congressmen fumed because their first information came from London, talked darkly of a coming currency battle over control of America's $22 billions gold hoard. Lost in the initial outburst of opinion was the fact that the White plan and the Keynes plan were in 100% agreement on the need for stable exchange rates. Both called for unfettered world trade, for international fiscal cooperation. The plans differed mainly in the technical means for attaining these objectives and basically in that each was an international projection of a plan that first protected...
Last week he had an additional worry: his reed supply. The cane from which oboe reeds are made grows only in the glens around the town of Fréjus in southern France. Until the defeat of Hitler, Tabuteau's career rests on a dwindling hoard of a few hundred twigs of cane kept on a Philadelphia shelf...
Besides the 10? or more a day they received as prisoners, they got $8 or more a week for their services to the local county agricultural committees. To the Italian lads, the money mounting up for them was a hoard, well worth keeping safe...