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Show National Wealth $600 Billion When Fred M. Vinson was Secretary of the Tresasury, and testifying before the House Banking Bank-ing and Currency Committee, he was asked to estimate the total resources of the United States. Admitting that he did not know, because there are "a lot of resources the Government doesn't own," the Secretary consulted con-sulted an expert assistant and said' that the physical wealth of the nation was around $(i00,-000,000,000. $(i00,-000,000,000. He pointed out, however, how-ever, that we have more than physical resources, including a going concern, turning out close to $190,000,000,000 worth of products prod-ucts annually. |