Word: hoards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week Congress began to argue the proposed $3,750,000,000 loan to Britain. The subject was touchy. It could touch off almost any firecracker in a politician's handy hoard of firecrackers. It also touched a great many knotty economic problems. But no one had to wonder whether politics or economics would make the most or the loudest talk...
Serious discrepancies had already appeared in Japanese financial and industrial reports to General MacArthur's headquarters. Example: silver bars. When U.S. officers found an unreported hoard of silver concealed under a pile of steel scrap in a factory, the Japanese explained that they had not meant to falsify the questionnaire on precious metals; they thought the military government had asked them to report on stocks of quicksilver...
...Maria's friends called the Mexico City police to No. 66. Inside, amid the dust of 50 years, were fine paintings and massive mahogany furniture. Also in the house were the bruised bodies of Angel and Miguel. Investigating the deaths, the police found the richest miser's hoard in their memory: $4,000,000 in deeds, bank notes and jewels, stuffed in drawers and between bedsprings...
...admirals like Aubrey Fitch, back in Washington from the Pacific, flatly said "yes." But from the Pentagon across the Potomac, Under Secretary of War Robert Patterson said "no" - the Japs' failure to retaliate against Admiral Halsey's Third Fleet and the Superfortresses merely meant that they were hoarding "plenty" of planes against invasion. Another air admiral, DeWitt Clinton ("Duke") Ramsey, new Fifth Fleet chief of staff, defined "plenty." He estimated the enemy hoard at 9,000 planes...
...Supplies flowed to the front in a regular stream. Troops were not anchored down by the need to hoard fixed quantities of food and ammunition...