Word: hoards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This hoard of modern art came from the rambling West Redding, Conn. farm house of a 64-year-old spinster named Katherine S. Dreier who has painted, collected and talked about modern art for almost 30 years. One of modern art's U.S. pioneer converts, massive, hemp-haired Katherine Dreier stored away abstractions like a Connecticut squirrel hoarding nuts for a hard winter. Other later and richer art squirrels sometimes, got bigger and tastier nuts than Katherine. But her hoard contained more different kinds than any body else's in the U.S. Unable to house it properly...
...Leningrad, Germany's official foreign news service, Dienst aus Deutschland, indicated last week that the German High Command was satisfied to hoard this hard nut and not try to crack it. "A prestige attack on this city, in which probably every cellar is loaded with dynamite, would demand sacrifices that cannot be justified, for our really decisive forces are needed on another front...
...have now cost the Government (including carrying charges) 12.2? a Ib. Now CCC can swap part of these holdings for hard cash. Besides a small profit, the corporation will also get the last laugh on the experts who in 1940 predicted the U.S. would end by burning its cotton hoard...
Gimbels' venture in art selling started last winter when the agents in charge of William Randolph Hearst's art hoard cast about for some method of converting it quickly into cash. Dr. Armand Hammer, head of Manhattan's Hammer Galleries, gave them the idea of selling it through a department store. So successful was the Hearst sale that Gimbels decided to keep on selling big art collections on consignment, put ace Art Salesman Hammer in charge...
Reason for this extreme action was to hoard all U.S. silk supplies for military use (chiefly powder bags and parachutes). At month's end visible supplies were 47,000 bales. Last week the crack Japanese liner Tatuta Maru, after much legal backing & filling, unloaded its 5.568 bales on San Francisco docks (see cut). Five other ships added another 11,000 bales, bringing U.S. supplies to 63,000 bales. This was about three months' civilian supply. It would fill all defense needs, said the Army, for two years...