Word: hoarding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...greatest remaining private art hoard in the U.S. (valued up to $50,000,000), the Widener collection was a plum fit to water directorial mouths in any museum in the world. No private collection has matched its set of 14 Rembrandts, few its Raphael Madonna (one of the few genuine Raphaels in the U.S.), its magnificent Titians and Van Dycks...
...turn what the nation does not want into something that it needs. With 260 million surplus bushels of wheat already in the Government's hands (and many million more unwanted bushels soon to be harvested), the Government planned to sell a fraction (125 million bushels) of its hoard for use as fodder, at 83? a bushel. As fodder, the unneeded grain would be converted into much-needed meat and eggs. More than that, by releasing some of the stored wheat, grain prices would be kept from rising to artificial heights...
Last spring Yale frustration commenced when the government took over a large shipment of canned green beans. Yale, which was apparently attempting to hoard beans, was foiled by Uncle Sam. The beans have doubled in price since the government seized them...
China Will Hoard. The commodity scarcity undoubtedly still continues to lead people to hoard. Medicines today give the best chances of profits for smugglers and hoarders. The Government gives air priority from India to medicine, saying: "Three tons of quinine are worth three tons of guns." To counteract hoarding, the Government announced that American Red Cross supplies were coming in, would be dumped on the market. The Government set up quinine shops in Chungking, where quinine is sold only to patients who swallow it in the shop...
Nipples. Babies must still be fed. WPB decided to allow some of its rubber hoard to be used for nipples. But smaller nipples...