Word: hoards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nonetheless the world's postwar problems have to be attacked somewhere first. Last week Harry White spoke hopefully of an international fiscal conference to be held "this winter." For the first time press reports flatly stated that Russia, with her vast and secret gold hoard, was ready to talk turkey about postwar finance. The Treasury's "tentative" World Bank at least made an opening for talk about something more concrete than the Four Freedoms when the discussions began...
...Bingo" Riggs and "Handsome" Kusak, peripatetic photographers, stop in an Iowa village on their way to Hollywood, are properly hornswoggled over a flock of turkeys, get dangerously involved in several murders and a hidden hoard of stolen gold pieces. A local sheriff does the major sleuthing. No deductive masterpiece but well stocked with action, odd characters and merriment...
...Professor Slichter assumed that half of U.S. individuals' war bond hoard would be "warm," half "cold," suggested in passing that the "cold" part was "a challenge particularly to the building-construction industry...
...fire behind the smoke. Their own facts: before this year's harvest, the tobacco industry had on hand 1,378,782,000 lb. of tobacco, enough for two years' normal demand. The quick-burning war demand in 1944 will force manufacturers to dip heavily into this hoard, but will still leave them with more than 20 months' supply. While they customarily cure tobacco 24 to 30 months, they could use tobacco cured only 18 months in a pinch, with no harm to the U.S. throat. (The British use tobacco cured for only a year.) Despite heavy Lend...
...Coffee sales dropped from 10-50%; i.e., people hoard when things look scarce, stop buying and consume their hoards when supplies look plentiful again. Added evidence: tea and cocoa (still on a quota basis, and allegedly scarce) are still in as much demand as ever, though in the U.S. as a whole they are traditionally second-best substitutes for coffee...