Whereas most investors during that time of financial panic were
dumping their freefalling U.S. equities, Buffett was snatching them up at such
great volume that he imagined his personal, non-Berkshire Hathaway portfolio would soon be composed only of domestic stocks.
A park district consultant hired to analyze the radiation problem at the site - a former city garbage
dump where dirt laced with thorium and radium was left a generation ago - has reported that the contamination is more than 12 times
greater in
volume than had been suspected.