Word: trove
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...finally made a move last week toward its forgotten treasure-trove of a million-plus tons of scrap rubber (TIME, June 8). It even made a gesture toward putting the profit motive to work on the rubber shortage, by letting scrap dealers make a little money bringing in the scrap...
This belief was dead wrong. Nobody has yet made a decent tire without rubber. The United Nations are so desperate for rubber that gasoline rationing will soon be extended everywhere in the U.S., just to keep the present tires from wearing out. Even the treasure trove of scrap rubber which has been uncovered but uncollected in the U.S. is entirely needed for war uses. There is no chance that any civilian will be able to buy a new tire until 1944-at the soonest. Positively...
...find to date: one rusty pistol. So littered with gold diggers' picks & shovels is Cocos Island that it looks "like an abandoned WPA project." A frequent visitor: Franklin Roosevelt. At Cocos the President fishes, yarns gleefully about such plunder as he himself once dug for at another famous trove on Oak Island, Nova Scotia. Other items in Wilkins' index of rainbow ends...
Other Hill treasures-trove...
Japan has everything to lose if an outsider takes over this treasure trove. Loss of Dutch oil combined with a possible U. S. embargo would be mortal. On the other hand, taking The Netherlands Empire itself would at one stroke accomplish Japan's New Order. Instead of cowering before the threat of an oil embargo, she could herself threaten a rubber and tin embargo against the U. S. She would possess islands from which she could conveniently attack Singapore. She would be able to snip off Hong Kong, Indo-China, the Philippines from the Western World...