Word: hoards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...enormous drama of his new position. The ship, already out of earshot, went trudging remorselessly on her way. Inspired, Tomas Montanez did not even cry out. He saw a tern flying overhead and told himself, fiercely, that this meant good luck. He began to swim, and pray, and hoard his strength...
...Canadian products (compared with $150 million in the first quarter of 1947). Britain will sell Canada an estimated $40 million worth of goods, $45 million can be drawn from the shrinking Canadian credit, and the remaining $100 million will be paid in U.S. dollars from Britain's hoard. If ERP meets Canada's hopes, she can afford to rewrite the three-month agreement, giving Britain better terms for a longer period...
...bowed gracefully to military instruction and promptly forgot it. But now, as civilian students, ex-G.I.'s find that wartime studies loom huge on their credit sheets with decimal figures that pare college time to the bone. The Dean's office must step high to escape the hoard of snapping students with unwanted, but usually irrevocable service credits...
Economists on both sides of the Atlantic promptly reminded Bevin that U.S. wealth lay in its high productivity, not in its gold hoard at Fort Knox. Bevin knew that a higher standard of living for Britain ultimately depended on increasing Britain's own productive capacity, not on "purchasing power...
Gold and dollar holdings of all foreign countries (except the Soviet Union), said the bank, now amount to $18 billion, up $4 billion over 1939. But a large part of this hoard is immobilized in private hoards or as currency reserves. And nations which need gold and dollars least hold the most. An example: liberated western Europe has less than half of its prewar stock of $5.4 billion. But well-fed, well-clothed Switzerland alone holds $1.4 billion of the Continent's hoard...