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Recent Examples of strongboxAnother artifact reflecting the sharp divides between rich and poor is an elaborate 800-pound steel strongbox that would have been used to store money—a great deal of it—in the home.—Teresa Nowakowski, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Nov. 2023 Today the sacred strongbox largely is in the hands of the cultural Left.—John D. Hagen, National Review, 20 Aug. 2020 By August 3, Bitcoin had rebounded by 15% to $23,300, raising the value of MicroStrategy’s strongbox by around $400 million.—Shawn Tully, Fortune, 3 Aug. 2022 Keep in mind that right now, its Bitcoin strongbox is worth just $700 million or so more than its debt.—Shawn Tully, Fortune, 3 Aug. 2022 By the time the duke and a boat containing his strongbox of memoirs and political documents were loaded, only one other boat was able to escape.—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 17 June 2022 Police were called and found that two rings were missing from the master closet, where a strongbox had been moved and pried open.—Thomas Jewell, cleveland, 30 Jan. 2020 An audit was carried out and discovered Bisher was writing checks to herself from the company’s strongbox.—Kathleen Joyce, Fox News, 5 May 2018 In Aldrich’s film, the quest is for a strongbox containing plutonium that emits a blinding white light when opened and ultimately unleashes a nuclear holocaust that concludes the movie.—Jonathan Rosenbaum, Slate Magazine, 24 May 2017
For example, if the world’s total gold deposits could be centrally certified and shares issued for buying these reserves, the same purpose could be served as stockpiling gold in a vault.
Saleem H. Ali,
Forbes,
20 Dec. 2024
Imagine a film archivist scouring an underground vault in Burbank or a cave in Butte, Montana, and discovering a few dozen dusty film canisters tucked away in a corner.
That's expected to deliver about $1 billion to GM's coffers.
Jamie L. LaReau,
USA TODAY,
13 Dec. 2024
Yankees Up Their Offer Because the Boston Red Sox, Toronto Blue Jays and Texas Rangers were also finalists for Fried, according to Joel Sherman of The New York Post, the Yankees reached deep into their coffers to secure the pitcher’s signature.
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