The Archive · 1939

Gold Worth $24,000,006 Enters 1/8. in Day Japan Sends Huge Sum

Valued $5,521,000

New York, July 22.

A new influx of gold was witnessed here yesterday, when more than $24 million worth of the precious metal entered the country during the last 24 hours. The exact amount of the shipment was $24,434,000.

The countries of origin of the newly arrived metal were listed as $751,000; Great Britain, Canada, $9,355,000; Mexico, 484,000; Chile, $445,000; Japan, $5,521,000, while the rest came from China, Guatemala and Costa-Rica, no exact figures being available for those coutries.—Havas.

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