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...Treasure Trove. Near Atlanta, Charles H. Farmer spotted something shiny on a creek bottom, dove in, came up with 1) a rhinestone pin, 2) a gold locket, 3) a string of pearls, 4) a gold watch chain, 5) crystal beads, 6) a Zipper shaving...
...Trove. In Minneapolis, workmen began tearing up a pavement, stopped in amazement: they had uncovered six bottles of pre-Prohibition brandy...
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...