Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Easterners in (say) Santa Fe, N. Mex., putting down a five-dollar bill for a pack of cigarets are likely to receive four large round silver dollars in their change. No animus is intended-Southwesterners are used to the silver dollars-solid, tangible, clanking evidence of wealth. A man with ten silver dollars weighting down his pockets may always be pleasantly conscious of his solvency. But Easterners and the U. S. public in general have not taken kindly to the silver dollars which are deemed cumbersome, termed "cartwheels,"' given with apology, received with reluctance...
Even less popular than the silver dollar has been the two-dollar bill. Blackamoor dice-wielders roll their eyes and shake their heads at getting the "unlucky" two-spot; superstition everywhere has fastened forebodings upon it. Probably the prejudice against the two-dollar bill results from the ease with which it may be mistaken for and handed out as a one; at any rate, it is the least liked of all currency denominations...
With the failure of the silver dollar and the two-dollar bill to win universal favor, the Treasury Department found itself printing (in 1926) 227,566,949 sheets of currency, a large proportion of which was in the form of one-dollar bills. It is the one-dollar bill that has been the great staple of U. S. currency. Even the most modestly salaried individual can "flash a roll" of ones. Homely, democratic, sanctified by custom, the one-dollar bill has been taken to the U. S. bosom, lovingly christened "bean," "buck," "berry," "simoleon," "iron man," "smacker," "plunk," "rock," "kelp...
...last week Secretary of the Treasury Andrew W. Mellon found a way of lessening expense without changing national customs. He announced that the dollar bills of the future will be considerably reduced in size. The present bill measures 7.7 inches by 3? inches. The new bill will measure QVs inches by 2? inches, therefore will be about an inch and one-half shorter and half an inch narrower. It will last longer because it will not have to be folded so much and each printing operation will produce 50% more notes. These two advantages of longer life and easier printing...
...dollar bill will not be released to the public for some twelve months and no "advance copies" will be issued. Later the paper-cutting process will be applied to all bills up to the lordly $10,000 bill, U. S. currency's largest denomination...