The Archive · 1939

U.S. Gold Holdings

Imports from Canada and Norway Reported New York, Dec. 19.

The stock of gold in the United States reached a new high record of $17,561,361,727 on December 15, following the entry of $97,500,000 in gold last Thursday and Friday, the Treasury Department announced today.

Gold deposits from Canada alone total $17,000,000 in the course of the two weeks ending December 6, while the "Herald Tribune" has announced that 144 cases of gold, valued at $8,000,000, arrived in New York last Monday from Bergen, Norway, consigned to the Federal Reserve Bank in New York.

Gold to the value of almost $13,- 000,000 has arrived in the United States from Norway since the beginning of the war.—Havas.

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