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...July, thousands of panicky citizens began to hoard food...
...there were plenty of solid financial reasons why both countries may revalue their currencies in coming months. Biggest reason: there has been a drastic change in the U.S. trade position with the rest of the world. Gold, which had flowed into the U.S. until it piled up a hoard of $24.6 billion, is now flowing out at a fast clip. This year the U.S. may well lose $2 billion worth or more...
Aging (71) Novelist Upton (The Jungle) Sinclair feared that an H-bomb attack would destroy his 40-year hoard of literary papers. In a letter to the Saturday Review of Literature, he offered the collection to "some library or museum" for safekeeping. Where is the treasure now? "I wouldn't tell for a million dollars...
Guns & Butter. Other material shortages were bound to increase as the Government stepped up its stockpiling of 71 strategic metals, minerals and materials. To make sure that U.S. industry did not hoard them, the President planned to use the broad controls he sought from Congress over industry's inventories, production and expansion...
...coffee-booming republic's approximately $23 million worth of gold coins and large bills, a study showed, more than half was being hoarded. Since the Twenty Families hoard U.S. dollars if they hoard any currency, all those colones must be in the mattresses and buried tin cans of other Salvadoreans. "There is a middle class in El Salvador," said Tucker, "and I am prepared to prove...