Word: hoardes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...damped more than one price spurt by methods not always polite. Last fall the posted steel price threatened to rise; the Temporary National Economic Committee called steelmen to Washington, argued for low prices, hinted at an anti-steel publicity campaign; the steel price stayed put. When housewives started to hoard retail sugar (TIME, Sept. 23), the President untied import quotas; in came Cuban sugar, down went prices. Copper began to move upwards; the President said the price was being watched, and the move slackened. Few weeks ago domestic mercury sold as high as $200 a flask. So the Administration stopped...
Almost out of marbles, Herr Dr. Funk, with a wave of his hand, whisked away the U. S. Treasury's $20,400,000,000 gold hoard-about 75% of all the world's monetary gold. If dumped on an island which then disappeared, said he, its lack would not hurt the world economy. For in the new world economy the dominant currency would be the Reichsmark, whose value, as at present, would be "assigned to it by the State." And if the U. S. wishes to adjust itself to the Nazi system, it must lower the dollar price...
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...
...soldiers ever have to fight in Central or South America, large quantities of yellow-fever vaccine will be needed. The U. S. hoard of that must start almost from scratch. Surgeon General Thomas Parran recently observed that there was hardly enough yellow-fever vaccine actually on hand to immunize a single regiment...
...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...