Word: belt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...average wage-earner has plenty to be melancholy about at home. He struggles desperately with the inflated cost of living. At official prices an average belt for a man costs 800 yen, a hat 2,000 yen, a pair of shoes 1,500 yen, a suit 4,000 yen. The black-market prices are twice as high, but if a Japanese boycotts the black market he will need a year and a half to accumulate the tickets necessary to buy a suit on his ration card...
...Hooper has been doing all right since 1923, the year he cleared a 15-mile stretch of land on contract for the Florida East Coast Railroad. Out of that shoestring venture grew a flourishing construction business. Hooper later bought a 5,038-acre farm in Alabama's "black belt" country and a long-legged quarter-horse named Royal Prince, that was unbeautiful but fast. Winning match races with this "moneymaking horse," he dented so many rich Georgia and Florida farmers that people stopped betting against...
...spring trip begins on Monday against Pennsylvania, which fortunately isn't in the fanatic belt. Navy meets the varsity on Wednesday, and tosses the remains on to Maryland for a Friday game...
Damn the Communists. Kirkenes' Finnish neighbors over the line were carefully moved back behind a Soviet "security belt." Some six divisions of the Red army moved up to protect the new border. Norwegians were forbidden to go to Petsamo (which the Russians named Pechenga), the Finnish nickel center across the Pasvik River. Meanwhile, Hoelvold established himself as local Red leader. He built up an eight-man Communist bloc in Kirkenes' 28-man town council. He began to publish a Mimeographed party newspaper. With his Russian friends beaming from the other side of the Pasvik, he blasted Norway...
...Negro jester clad in scarlet tunic stood at his elbow. The Amir was a mass of glittering green. His head was ringed by a gold and platinum crown studded with $3,000,000 worth of emeralds. More emeralds flashed from his silver-braided Moslem long coat and sword belt. Only his shoes, British-made black oxfords, were plain. While Arab minstrels wailed in the background, 500 red-fezzed subjects came up one by one, bowed, and dropped gold pieces (worth $7 each) at his feet...