Word: hoarding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many another man in public life had saved scraps of paper as the basis for memoirs. But never had such a man squirreled away so great a hoard of data against the long, cold winter of private life. By last week, 872 black-bound volumes, averaging 300 pages apiece, lined three walls of Morgenthau's Manhattan office. A stack of material still unbound would run the collection to 900 volumes. Even a cipher-happy New Dealer could only guess at the word count-perhaps...
...recent months, as his time ran out, Runyon had not tried to hoard it. He had roamed the town more eagerly than ever, as if to take with him all he could of the sharp flavor of the characters he half-created, half-observed: Milk Ear Willie, Harry the Horse, Sam the Gonoph, Light-Finger Moe, and Regret, the horse player. He spent many nights cruising with Walter Winchell, his fellow Hearstling and perhaps his closest friend, chasing police calls...
...third of Quebec's 3½ million, missing the daily 7 p.m. episode of Un Homme would have been as unthinkable as substituting English for French. Listeners hissed Miser Seraphim Poudrier as he added to his $70,000 hoard and forgot to mention his avarice at confession. They sent gifts to his wife, Donalda, symbol of saintly suffering. These two main characters are so real that in Quebec "Seraphim" now means "miser," and good Catholics are "as saintly as Donalda...
Please a G.I. The American occupation was no ill wind to Mikimoto. He began selling pearls from his hoard to G.I.s. When black-market prices soared to 30,000 yen ($2,000) for a string, U.S. authorities stepped in, ordered Mikimoto and other Japanese pearlers to sell only to the U.S. Army for sale in post exchanges. Prices now vary from 300 to 2,000 yen a string...
...finally forced to give in to the silver-loving Congressmen, led by Nevada's Pat McCarran. They had been able to hold up the Treasury-Post Office appropriations bill, threatening the pay of 552,000 federal employes. Now the Treasury can again sell silver from its vast hoard...