Stealing the gold.

Gold currency was stopped in the US in 1933, but the US had no place to store all the gold until Fort Knox depository was built in 1936, by 1937 the gold was transferred to Ft Knox in 500 trains.

WI someone managed to steal a large amount of this gold between it's withdrawal from circulation and it's transfer to Ft Knox?
 
The FBI goes on a rampage, I would not doubt that all trains in the area would be stopped and search, I dont think that much gold could be carried off any other way. I remember watching a show on history channel that the gold was sent via several trains each one loaded with guards. Once at Ft Knox then the Army also was guarding the gold.
As for the economy the US was already off the gold standard, so I dont know.
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Well, even the sudden concept of the US dollar not having anything to back it during the Depression might send a few ripples through the nation's economy.

Mr. Hoover though is going to be granted broad powers to find it by any means required. Wonder if he'd ever return those powers once he does.
 
I'm not thinking of highjacking every train, but perhaps liberating a few tons from the dispersed pre-Fort Knox storage, and bowling over a train or two. Despite the removal of gold from circulation it was still very valuable and could be fenced easily enough.
 
WI someone managed to steal a large amount of this gold between it's withdrawal from circulation and it's transfer to Ft Knox?
So WI someone manages to steal Back some of the the Gold the Roosevelt had already stolen.

I doubt if even a Military style attack could get enuff Gold to fill more than a couple of Trucks, and the trucks couldn't outrun the Road Blocks.

But if they get away they still have the problem of Disposing of Roosevelt's Gold.
 
A couple of trucks of gold, that'll do me!

Road blocks take time to set up, a good heist should be away before they get set up. I'd imagine that a good crew of theives could smuggle the gold out of the USA, and sell it out in the world.
 
You'll need airships and gyrocopters.

I would just pawn the gold, invest in the 1933 stockmarket boom. Return the gold and keep the profits.
 
They run into the same problem Goldfinger did; how do you move the gold? Goldfinger had a way around that problem, but in the '30s, there is no way any criminals will be able to transport any major amount of gold, so any amount stolen would be insignificant on a national level.
 
They run into the same problem Goldfinger did; how do you move the gold? Goldfinger had a way around that problem, but in the '30s, there is no way any criminals will be able to transport any major amount of gold, so any amount stolen would be insignificant on a national level.

How did Goldfinger plan to get around that problem? I know in the movie, he just decided not to bother and nuke the gold instead, but what was his plan in the book? The wiki article doesn't say.
 

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How did Goldfinger plan to get around that problem? I know in the movie, he just decided not to bother and nuke the gold instead, but what was his plan in the book? The wiki article doesn't say.
he was going to nuke the gold so no one could use it for at least 50 years and with all that gold not being usable, that would send prices skyrocketing and he then could sell his gold and make billions.
 
he was going to nuke the gold so no one could use it for at least 50 years and with all that gold not being usable, that would send prices skyrocketing and he then could sell his gold and make billions.

Yeah, I know. That was his plan in the movie, but apparently that's just the movie. In the book, he actually planned the steal the gold, but since I've never read it, I was wondering what his plan was.
 
They run into the same problem Goldfinger did; how do you move the gold? Goldfinger had a way around that problem, but in the '30s, there is no way any criminals will be able to transport any major amount of gold, so any amount stolen would be insignificant on a national level.
Even with the low values back then, you could move almost $250,000 in a pickup. Disposing of it would be the problem.
 
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