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Setting forth last month, armed with a hoard of cigars to chain-smoke, rotund Minister Erhard announced that he was going East with an open mind...
Last week, five months after West died of pneumonia at 54, executors inventorying his estate added a footnote to the gaudy Jim West legend. Found in a cellar beneath his Houston mansion were bags, barrels and cans brimming with silver dollars, plus a hoard of $2 bills. Estimated total: upwards of $250,000. Fearing that cartwheels might be scarce some day-the last batch was minted in 1935-West built up a reserve supply, apparently added the emergency store of deuces just in case the silver-dollar stockpile ran low. Jim West was no man to let himself get into...
SOVIET GOLD DIGGERS may lead world production this year. In 1957 Soviets turned out about 38% of world gold supply-17 million 02. worth $595 million-to match the longtime leader, South Africa. Gold hoard gives Soviets potent economic weapon to fight balance-of-trade deficits...
Cars for Motorcycles. German exports have grown so much faster than imports that the country's gold and foreign-exchange hoard tops $5.8 billion," more than double Britain's, and Germans have embarked on a foreign-aid program of their own ($12 million in 1957 for technical-assistance projects involving some 25 countries). This year the World Bank borrowed $100 million in the Frankfurt money market. German firms have sent $380 million abroad in direct capital investment−roughly a third to Europe, a third to Latin America, a tenth to the U.S. and 15% to Canada...
...steered them around the corner to a 17th century palace at No. 77 Via della Croce. First, the officers put a watch on No. 77, keeping an eye on middlemen entering and purchasers leaving the place. Last week officers raided No. 77 and confiscated what they called the "greatest hoard of looted archaeological treasures ever found in Italy." In the old palace, crowded with pressed butterflies and Victorian lamps, they found 15,000 antique items without a single legal permit, including nine showcases stacked with Etruscan vases, cups, coins, marble statuary. Four thousand pieces were rated "important," some priceless...