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Silver flowed into the Treasury's vaults until by 1942 they held a huge, stagnant reservoir of 98,800 short tons. Results: As the world silver price climbed, China went off the silver standard; other nations reduced the amount of silver in their coins. Silver sellers the world over had a long and profitable ride, paid for by the U.S. taxpayer...
...service, beginning June 30. Though the total of volunteers had passed the 600,000 mark, the monthly rate was beginning to fall off. Without the spur of the draft, it would probably drop sharply. The Army could not afford to gamble; it needed the assurance of a constant manpower reservoir...
...major force in the temporal and even spiritual policies of the Vatican. Rome, which once looked uncertainly toward the American Church, today looks to the U.S. as: 1) the world's most effective counterweight to the newly emergent power of Russia; 2) the world's greatest reservoir of food and goods to forestall the further demoralization of Europe; 3) the world's greatest embodiment of the form of government which offers the Church its best milieu for survival-democracy...
...Falling Reservoir. Indonesia was an embarrassment to Britain in her own Asiatic sphere. If Premier Sjahrir's Government were recognized, repercussions would be felt in India, Burma, Malaya. On the other hand, so long as Indonesia remained unsettled, other pressing imperial problems-dangerous rice shortages, a crippling lack of transport, labor unrest-would be sharpened...
...stake in Southeast Asia. Its Lend-Lease weapons were being used against patriots. The American "reservoir of good will," which Wendell Willkie found among Asia's masses, was drying up. Cried the bitter Indian press: "American sympathy for freedom is merely platonic. ... At least the Japanese sought to set up some form of self-government in every Asiatic country. All you white men seek to do is reinstall prewar exploiters, imperialists, and burra sahibs [great masters...