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United States Treasury

noun

The federal department that collects revenue and administers federal finances; the Treasury Department was created in 1789. Synonyms: Department of the Treasury, Treasury, Treasury Department.

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... he'd bet it would register more mileage chasing after them fool burros than his auto stage could show after a full season. As for working the widow's claim, it was not worth working, from all he could judge of it. And if it were full of gold as the United States treasury, the burros took up all their time so they couldn't do much. Between doggone stock drinking or not drinking and the darn fool diary that had to be kept, Bud opined that they needed an extra hand or two. Bud was peevish, these days. Gila Bend had ...

— Cabin Fever • B. M. Bower

... of financial distress in America, which recalled the hard times of twenty years before. The United States Treasury was empty. There had been a too rapid building of railway lines in comparatively undeveloped regions where they could not pay expenses for years to come. Settlers did not come so quickly as was expected, and a fall in railway shares resulted. There was great ...

— A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year - Volume Two (of Three) • Edwin Emerson

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