Word: hoardes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long will the postwar boom last? The rosy estimates of three to five years have been based on one solid economic fact. During the war, U.S. consumers piled up $90 billion in savings, now hold $130 billion. This huge hoard, according to the economic witch-doctors, would be poured out-to fuel the boom. But last week, in a gloomy and significant report, the conservative U.S. Bureau of Agricultural Economics said...
Unwieldy Inventories. And there were other troubles. Getting the services to declare items surplus was still a problem. Example: the Army had 25,000 almost-new passenger cars rusting and rotting in an Atlanta depot. When this hoard was publicized, the Army reluctantly gave up only 7,000 of them, and they were the worst...
Short on silver throughout the war, U.S. silver users have been hit even harder in peace. Production of aircraft engine bearings, silverware, dental fillings, film emulsions, etc. is being crippled. The estimated needs for 1946 (125 million oz.) could be easily met out of the U.S. hoard. But the silver bloc will not let the U.S. sell...
...woman emerged from another kitchen carrying a half-dozen big chunks of the raw product, weighing altogether perhaps seven or eight pounds. The others looked on quietly. The woman said something to the interpreter. He turned to us and told the amazing reason why she had not shown this hoard of clay sooner: "She was hiding it from the others...
Last week, at the dumping scene, Neilsen plunged into six feet of water. Under the soft mud he felt "two areas-each about 20 feet square . . . paved with blocks." He brought up a 75-lb. platinum ingot (worth $42,000). Army engineers are dredging for the rest of the hoard...