Word: hoardes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...casual shoppers in the Coop this summer, all seems quiet and cool, but few realize that frantic, behind the scenes preparations are in progress to handle the hoard of students expected to descend upon the Square in September...
Once the Army realized its fiscal blunder, it went to work to rectify it by fobbing off the marks on soldiers and occupation personnel in Germany. For all goods and services supplied by Germans, such as telephones, railroad tickets, furniture, etc., the Army paid them from its hoard of marks. But for the use of these services, the Army charged soldiers and occupation personnel in occupation script, a strictly controlled U.S. currency. In effect, the Army was getting dollars for the marks it was giving the Germans. Even charitable funds sent to Germany were converted into marks before being paid...
They grab and hoard...
...western countries of South America are running out of the blue chips of international exchange.Chile's war-won pile of U.S. dollars has shrunk. The dollar balances of Bolivia and Peru, never impressive, now look like peanuts. Ecuador's hoard, despite a bin-busting rice crop, has leveled...
...beating John Keenan in the process, a man to whom he lost in February. Dan Ray in 145 got a pin in the first round to give the Crimson one point but lost in the quarter-finals as did 136-pound Frank Trinkle. Phil Busby, Jim Conant and Jim Hoard all lost in the first round...