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...They are some 80 Armored Personnel Carriers of the U.S. 25th Infantry Division. Crashing through thickets, the APCs weave and crisscross, stitching the jungle with lethal, preplotted patterns of .50-cal. and M60 machine-gun fire. Grudgingly the Viet Cong give way, firing back carefully to conserve their slender hoard of ammunition...
...nations could cause inflation. For another, it is seldom used for large-scale development projects, since these would demand additional investment and operating expenses that few poor countries can afford. Frequently the U.S. lends the nation some of its blocked currency, but the interest payments only add to the hoard. One of the most serious problems is governmental limitations on spending written into U.S. legislation...
...victim of a forthcoming New Year's tax increase. Long queues of customers stood through hail, sleet and snow to snap up West Berlin's stocks of liquor in a frenzied Christmas shopping rush. Tavernkeepers and restaurant owners bid up the rent of cellars to hoard extra cases...
Only a few years ago, the nation's proliferating surpluses of wheat and corn seemed as immutable as original sin. Today, thanks to the 1954 Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act-the Food for Peace program -the U.S. has whittled the hoard to less burdensome levels by simply selling, bartering and giving away $14 billion worth of surplus food and fiber in eleven years. In 1964 alone, Food for Peace shipments totaled $1.7 billion, one-third of all U.S. foreign...
...German products but for foreign goods as well. While helpful to the domestic economy, this spur has pushed up imports 22% (while exports have climbed only 10%), thus creating a $1.3 billion balance-of-payments deficit for the January-September period and chewing into Germany's $7 billion hoard of gold and foreign exchange...