Word: hoardes
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...fever has also been dampened by the fact that France is no longer in a position to cash in dollars for U.S. gold. On the contrary, a good part of the gold that has flowed into the U.S. comes from France, which has been forced to dip into its hoard to defend the beleaguered franc...
...describe Sol as "nice, thoughtful, helpful." He liked to talk about books and tend the garden; he played Chinese checkers with a couple of elderly neighbors, one of them a Jewish lady. Sol was no swinger, was rarely seen with girls. His brothers told police that Sol liked to hoard his money?perhaps explaining the $409 he had on him despite his being unemployed recently. He did well enough at John Muir High School to gain admission to Pasadena City College, but he dropped out. He wanted to be a jockey, but could qualify only as a "hot walker...
Treasured Footage. Almost every night in her sitting room, Lady Bird dutifully augments her husband's historical hoard by dictating her own Johnsoniana to what she calls a talking machine...
...rebounding "peace market" drew much of its surprising strength from heavy buying by institutions- he mutual funds, pension funds, speculative "hedge" funds, insurance companies and trusts that usually stay on the sidelines during Wall Street's emotional spasms. This time the funds scrambled to rein vest their record hoard of idle cash...
...elite. In France, most brokers do not even advertise-and the first one who does so aggressively may get on to quite a good thing. Still fearful of invasion and deflation, peasants tend to distrust securities, put their money in the mattress and their faith in gold, which they hoard and bury-a complete waste of capital. But proper marketing techniques can lure it out. Europe had hardly any mutual funds until an expatriate from Brooklyn, Bernie Cornfeld, started marketing them a dozen years ago. His Investors Overseas Services now raise more than...