Manhattan reporters last week journeyed to the docks to count cases of gold being unloaded from the Queen Mary. They counted 355 cases, thus estimated that the Queen brought in some $20,000,000. This was presently dwarfed by a shipment on the Manhattan estimated at $56,000,000, largest ever. At week's end four other liners were on the way from frightened Europe with $75,000,000 more to add to the $15,007,517,132.83 (57% of the world's monetary supply) in gold already admittedly in the U. S. Treasury's hands.
As usual when the golden tide laps high on U. S. shores, reporters went to see...
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