Word: cash
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...state of "anarchy." Alsogaray has not been able to put into practice most of the reform measures he insists are necessary. Prices rise daily, and last week the peso sank still lower to 129 to the dollar, while the foreign debt climbed to above $4 billion and gold and cash reserves in the treasury dwindled to a meager $170 million. And how does all this affect the run of the people? Said a Buenos Aires housewife with a shrug: "We don't worry any more. We live from...
...military bases on the island "when and if it pleases." British and U.S. aid programs are already in the works for housing and water projects: the U.S. will put up $2,200,000 as a loan, and the British will lend another $3,700,000 in cash and hand over some War Office land...
...mourner who sent $50 worth of roses to the funeral-together with a love sonnet from Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Marilyn's troubled financial state was suggested as meaningful: apart from her $77,500 house, which carried a $35,000 mortgage, her property consisted of some $4,000 in cash plus clothing, furs and jewelry. For the past two years she had restricted herself to $20 a week pocket money...
...victory was worth $11,000 in prize money, but the cash was only part of it for Muncey. He earned a niche in racing's Hall of Fame just behind the greatest pilot of all time, Gar Wood. Between 1917 and 1921, Gar Wood won the Gold Cup five times running, at 57.5 m.p.h. average speeds. In today's considerably faster company, Muncey has beaten all comers four times, the last...
Another show business dowager being heard from currently in print is Marlene Dietrich. Having gracefully graduated from showing her figure in public to the role of public figure (as a glamorous grandmother and crony of the late Ernest Hemingway), Dietrich tries to cash in on both images in Marlene Dietrich's ABC. As a result, the book is a kind of uneasy cross between Poor Richard's Almanack and a Lorelei's Advice to the Lovelorn...