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Show U.S. HOARD OF GOLD T0PSJ7NLLIQNS WASHINGTON, Oct. 21 UP The treasury's gold hoard today passed $17,000,000,(10067 per cent of all the governmental and central bank gold reserves in the world. The war has nearly stopped gold shipments here, but fear of It was largely responsible for the present size of Uncle Sam's gold stocks. Before the war started scared Europeans seld gold here almost as fast as they could In order to get It to -a place of safety, and already this year about (2,900,000,-000 (2,900,000,-000 worth has come into this country. |