Word: hoards
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
...library, as for the President, the vote came none too soon. Groaning under the weight of 44 million manuscripts, books, prints and other material, and faced with an annual increase of a million items, the library has had to stack its hoard in the offices and passages of its two existing buildings and consign the overflow to such makeshift extensions as a former aircraft paint hangar in Middle River, Md., 50 miles from the capital...