The United Statee Treastuy has almost enough gold to sink a battleship but not enough to make a 28-foot cube. The 12,143,000,000 dollars (£2,428,600,000) of Government gold, the mint said, weighs 11,888 tons and has a volume of 19,820 cubic feet. .Navy officials calculated that tonnage would raise the water-line of the 32,000ton battleship Weqfc Virginia by nine feet, would make lt unsCaworthy but would not send it to the bottom. The Bureaiu of Hines said all the monetary gold in the world wouldn't make up a cube 35 feet on an edge.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 160, 24 July 1937, Page 15
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