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Show GOLD OF WORLD IN U. S. America Has Greatest Stock of Yellow Metal in History. Washington. Already possessed of the greatest single stock of gold in history, the United States could lay claim today to most of the remaining free gold of the world in payment of its favorable merchandise balance, the federal reserve bulletin will say in its July issue. The balance approximated $0,000,-000,000 $0,000,-000,000 in the last three years and bids fair to continue at the same rate this year, affording a problem to arrange payments without bankrupting debtor nations, and still further enhancing the cost of living here through the importation impor-tation of more metal. |