Word: hoarder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Treasury he would lose money on it. The advantage in buying canned gold dust, to hard-shelled citizens who aren't sure that paper money is here to stay, is that it is the only form of gold that the Government lets them hoard. Another hoarder, Alf Ringen, the postmaster of Kindred, N.Dak., rebelled at a 15-year-old government order which directed postal employees to save string; he had a 100-lb. ball of the stuff and it was getting...
...keep day wages just a notch behind the cost of living. Merchants, if they are skillful, fare best. There is money to be made and real wealth to be salted away against better postwar years. But those who do the best must be prepared to hear epithets like "hoarder" and "smuggler," must expect their neighbors to assume that they are using "pull." Over & over, the hard-pressed tell each other that "The Gang," the favored few who know how to obtain licenses to trade in foreign currency, are lining pockets, putting down anchors where they will do the most good...
Ruddy-faced, greying, intense Ralph Pendleton, 47, had been practicing medicine in Salt Lake City and working on his wax treatment for 20 years when he was ordered to Mare Island last December. "I'm sort of a hoarder," he says. "I had laid in a supply of flit guns. When I started for Mare Island, I threw them in the back of the car figuring they might come in handy." They did-by chance he was assigned to a burn ward, told to do anything he thought would help the suffering sailors...
Only a fulltime hoarder, with unlimited bankroll, could keep up with the flood tide of shortages; no hoarder had the future really cased without a full stock of hair curlers and wigs, Easter lilies and lawn mowers, girdles and cod-liver oil, sugar and quinine, gin and tea, rubber diapers and bronze caskets...