Word: hoardes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...garage owners was that students were cooperating with the government to the fullest extent. Not only are they obeying the letter of the law, but also the spirit. When advised to buy just before the restriction went into effect, many students said that they didn't want to hoard. "Give somebody else a break," or "I'll buy a bicycle if my tires give out," were typical answers...
...nobody has doped out a way to reallocate the jumpy housewife's unmeasured hoard. If she plays squirrel again as she did in 1939 (TIME, Sept. 18, 1939) ration cards will be the only way to keep her calmer neighbor in sugar...
When the materials shortages developed, priorities were freely handed out. But since there had been no overall measurement of supply & demand ("They kept raising the sights on us"), priorities orders were soon as unredeemable as Confederate money. Manufacturers, hot for certainty, began to hide and hoard materials; and Ed Stettinius was kicked upstairs to be Lend-Lease Administrator...
When war came, he gave plenty of soldiers the fatal chance. He was not one to hoard lives. In Poland he had to do more fighting than General Gerd von Rundstedt, but by losing far more men he went just as fast. In France, too, his central armies of Group B suffered relatively high casualties. In Russia he won Germany's greatest victories (Bialystok-Minsk, Smolensk, Bryansk-Vyazma) and suffered the greatest losses. Last week he was still sending men to glorious, spendthrift death...
...Using some of the Treasury's 100,000-ton hoard of silver as a substitute for copper in electrical machinery...