Word: hoardes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
Last week pretty Mrs. Jay ("Dolly") O'Brien, one of the holders of the women's hoard that is a 20% slice of outstanding U. S. corporation stocks, was in Palm Beach dancing with her socialite husband at the swanky Patio, walking with her bulge-clipped English poodle on her South Ocean Boulevard estate. Her amiable, globe-trotting son, Julius ("Junky") Fleischmann, whose father, Julius Fleischmann Sr., died (heart attack) on the polo field, was ailing in his moated castle in Cincinnati. And her onetime brother-in-law, husky Major (in the A. E. F.) Max C. Fleischmann...
...Majesty's subjects His Majesty's Government will pay the market price of their securities as of Feb. 17 in sterling. As Scot Gifford sells them here, the British Government will pocket its dollars for future U. S. material purchases, will thus have added to its present hoard of $2,600,000,000 in liquid gold and dollars. On Solicitor Gifford's first list were equities in plenty of profitable U. S. industries -Du Pont, Douglas Aircraft, American Tobacco, Santa Fe, Norfolk & Western, Colgate-Palmolive-Peet. Last week many a hungry broker hoped he would be tapped...