Word: trove
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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First big find was an underground trove in a locked room beneath the Great Synagogue, largest in Palestine. Watched by Tel-Aviv's Jewish mayor, this cache yielded counterfeiting equipment and $800,000 in forged bonds; a radio transmitter; weapons and ammunition, mixed up with bedding and religious literature. Elsewhere the searchers found homemade bombs, grenades, Bangalore torpedoes, and military training manuals...
Then the Silver bloc agreed to allow U.S. industry access to the treasure trove -for a price. Industry could buy the metal at 90? an ounce if i) the Treasury bought from producers at 90?, and 2) in two years the price of silver were raised to $1.29. As tribute to the bloc, U.S. silver users would pay an increase of about 81% for a two-year respite from the artificial shortage...
...most the treasure was worth only $1,900, but it was the King's trove and Snow was jubilant. Beaming at his find, he planned to get a radar set, go hunting storied New England hulks (among them the British Privateer Mary Ann, sunk off Chatham with $1,000,000 in bullion) which have hitherto evaded unscientific treasure seekers...
...waited vainly for taxicabs, lugged their own heavy baggage because there weren't enough redcaps. Men in open-necked sport shirts, women in print dresses stood literally for hours in ticket lines. Squads of boys & girls, bound for summer camps, assembled beneath signs marked "Camp Hiawatha" or "Treasure Trove...
...them had been Americans. From the rich trove of British experience AAFSAT has taken vast treasure, brought it home to give to its students. Its faculty has culled the best from German tactics, studied the Russian, cudgeled its own brain for refinement of what war has already taught and for new uses of old tactical experiments now all but forgotten...