Word: hoarding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...losing is foreign, that's what it is, foreign! Almost Communist! The great Red hoard, plundering, smashing, raping, wrecking! Crimson jerseys everywhere--aaaaaah...
Setting forth last month, armed with a hoard of cigars to chain-smoke, rotund Minister Erhard announced that he was going East with an open mind...
Last week, five months after West died of pneumonia at 54, executors inventorying his estate added a footnote to the gaudy Jim West legend. Found in a cellar beneath his Houston mansion were bags, barrels and cans brimming with silver dollars, plus a hoard of $2 bills. Estimated total: upwards of $250,000. Fearing that cartwheels might be scarce some day-the last batch was minted in 1935-West built up a reserve supply, apparently added the emergency store of deuces just in case the silver-dollar stockpile ran low. Jim West was no man to let himself get into...
SOVIET GOLD DIGGERS may lead world production this year. In 1957 Soviets turned out about 38% of world gold supply-17 million 02. worth $595 million-to match the longtime leader, South Africa. Gold hoard gives Soviets potent economic weapon to fight balance-of-trade deficits...
Cars for Motorcycles. German exports have grown so much faster than imports that the country's gold and foreign-exchange hoard tops $5.8 billion," more than double Britain's, and Germans have embarked on a foreign-aid program of their own ($12 million in 1957 for technical-assistance projects involving some 25 countries). This year the World Bank borrowed $100 million in the Frankfurt money market. German firms have sent $380 million abroad in direct capital investment−roughly a third to Europe, a third to Latin America, a tenth to the U.S. and 15% to Canada...