Word: hoardes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russia needs enormous new rubber supplies, and the U.S. stockpile (500,000 tons) is the only substantial hoard upon which the United Nations can draw...
...biggest hoard was 15,000 Ib. by a New Jersey electrician who filled a warehouse with sugar two years ago. His wife can get none of his sugar and no ration cards until he disposes of his 577-year supply...
...only thing the Government wants U.S. citizens to hoard - is begging them to hoard - they will not hoard is coal...
METALS Silver, despite its artificial price, has become so useful as a substitute for genuinely scarce tin, copper and other metals that the Treasury is going to release 40,000 tons from its own hoard. It has become so useful, indeed, that some of its friends think the No. 1 political metal may even be taken out of politics...
...found that the two big untapped sources of metal scrap are 1) auto grave yards, 2) the nation's 6,500,000 farms, where an estimated one to two and a half million-ton hoard of old machinery lies mouldering. To round up the farm scrap, he decided that paid collectors were necessary. The first thousand collectors announced by Rosenwald last week: WPA workers, with WPA trucks, to go from farm to farm collecting scrap (they will ask for it as a gift, pay for it if need be). It will be auctioned to commercial dealers, who must promise...