Word: hoarding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...impressive gesture. Hard-up Britain could have avoided repayment by invoking a clause in the loan agreement allowing it to postpone interest payments. Instead it decided to dip into its dwindling gold and dollar hoard to make good its promise. The Tory government had its own good reasons for honoring the debt punctually. Winston Churchill, due to visit Washington next month, wants to sweeten up U.S. opinion before asking for a bigger share of U.S. Mutual Security funds (perhaps $300 million). "Our principle," explained a Whitehall official, "is that you should always pay your tailor promptly for the first suit...
...when Lana was six, the family packed up and migrated to San Francisco, where John Turner became a stevedore. One night he got into a crap game, cleaned up, headed home with his winnings. Next morning he was found bludgeoned to death on a street corner, his new hoard gone. The case, says Lana, has never been solved...
Local merchants said that the situation here has not yet become critical. They believe that customers who hoard pennies in piggy banks are seriously to blame for the present situation. "If customers would only turn in their loose pennies when they make a purchase," one store-keeper said, "all this would never have happened...
...offer "The stop, hit and dump," "the blabberin' throw," "the 50-league hot foot," "the fog-rolling contest," "the frisk us thorough," "the Tito-totter balance" "the atom hoard jump," and "the high-hurdle delays...
Consumers did almost no scare buying last week. The dollar volume of U.S. department-store sales was just about the same as last year, and the unit volume was probably below. Groaned one merchandiser: "We could use a little scare buying." Storekeepers guessed that those who wanted to hoard had overstocked in July and were now living off of their fat. And the rest of the consumers, said one merchant, were "all scared...