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When the U. S. Government moved its great gold hoard into the underground strongboxes at Fort Knox, Ky., it left vacant a number of gold vaults in the U. S. Treasury in Washington. Last week the Public Health Service used these to start another kind of hoard-drugs, especially drugs which World War II has made more & more difficult to import. High on this list is quinine, most of which is imported from the war-threatened Netherlands East Indies. Others: opium, morphine...
...collection (comprising nearly 6.000 items, insured for more than a million dollars) packed three boxcars. Convoyed by 24 Mexican soldiers and police, the boxcars last month reached the Mexican border, where they were turned over to two Texas rangers, who convoyed them to Manhattan. To house this Mexican hoard the Museum of Modern Art had to clear out its permanent collections, store them in the basement...
...gamble on a great scale, fraught with the risk of extending an already long front and the danger of exhausting a vital hoard of oil and other strategic materials. To work it had to have 1) surprise, 2) complete and efficient coordination of the three striking arms, army, navy, air force, on a broader and more complicated scale than any war had ever seen before. It involved landing parties at many points over hundreds of miles, a swift invasion across Denmark's land border, preparation by air and sea bombardment...
...duty on other imports of the metal, has lower shipping costs. Out of orders for the U. S. Government's manganese stock pile (now only 13 days' supply at the 1939 steel production rate) and for the steel industry's private hoard (15 months' supply), Cuban-American after a deficit of $22,059 m 1938, and three deficit quarters in 1939, turned the corner. Result: a 285% increase in gross sales, a record year...
France, coming gradually to life, is stepping up the performance of its Amiot 370, its Bloch 131, its Liore-&-Olivier Le O-45, by new design. Given time the Allies may yet overhaul Germany, may even out foot her if the hard-pressed Nazis run out of their hoard of raw materials: copper, aluminum, etc. But last week, with spring flying weather opening up, the gloomy looked at Joe Kennedy's odds and wondered...