Word: influxes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Stalin's Scheme. Though the Soviet Union has somewhat suddenly emerged as the world's second largest exporter (after South Africa), the big influx of Communist gold has failed to upset the West. Actually, the Soviet gold is welcomed by the U.S. Federal Reserve and European central banks, which have formed a consortium-called the London gold pool-to buy up gold as it comes on the market. Reason: the new supply of Soviet gold has eased the West's acute gold shortage and helped stabilize the free market price of gold at very near the official...
...square foot to get front age on Munich's Marienplatz, and hill top land outside Bonn that went for 10 per square foot five years ago now brings $4.65. On Spain's Costa del Sol, which has become almost honky-tonk as a result of a vast influx of tourists and land speculators, even rural land now sells for as much as $60,000 an acre-a price that the same lot in Florida's Coral Gables could not command...
With the new influx of applications, however, this procedure has already caused a thorny administration problem and may give rise in the future to a serious flaw in the entire administration procedure...
...from its relative obscurity on the fifth floor of rickety old Holyoke House to the pleasant white building on 5 Linden Street, more people began finding the door. Already the Bureau's staff of seven part-time counselors are often working full time including week-ends to handle the influx of students. And if the present rate of eighty per cent increased student use over the last five years continues, the Bureau, at its present size, faces serious future conditions of overwork...
Hospitals were swarming with patients, and weary nurses struggled to keep up with the influx. The doctors refuse to make home calls to treat...