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Word: dime (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Over 1,000 duplicate books will go on sale in Widener Lower Hall today from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The offering will include a large number of dime books and others at prices ranging...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Extra Widener Books To Go on Sale Today | 10/20/1948 | See Source »

...comparative prices, a meal of shrimps, wine, tomato and potato salad, more wine, steak and, of course, French fried potatoes and more wine, and cheese for dessert costs a dollar at any of the restaurants off the large boulevards. Movies range from a dime to a dollar, the opera four times a week can be enjoyed for thirty cents, the Folies start at sixty-five, and exhibitions for five run around a buck and a half each. These are computed at the legal rate of exchange of 3000 francs to the dollar...

Author: By Robert W. Morgan jr., | Title: Notes On Tourists, Students, Francs, and Politics | 9/28/1948 | See Source »

...just go into a dime store and get a kid's story, twist it a bit and turn it into music"). His You Call Everybody Darling is the nation's No. 1 song hit. (His recording of it with his "Happiest Band in the Land" is also the No. 4 bestselling popular record.) And last week, "so people will be sure to identify it with me," Blackhawk customers were getting liberal doses of his latest number, Brush Those Tears from Your Eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Happiest Band in the Land | 9/13/1948 | See Source »

...tons out of its monthly 37,500-ton pig-iron production. Charlie White had driven a shrewd bargain. His rent to Kaiser-Frazer is $1.40 a ton of iron produced, while Kaiser-Frazer must pay WAA $1.50. Thus, as long as White runs the plant, Kaiser loses a dime on every ton of iron that Republic makes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Feudin' & Fussin' | 9/6/1948 | See Source »

...Army of small lots of Argentine beef, lamb and turkey for use in Germany suggested a far from united economic front against Argentina. What went on? EGA, which holds the strings of the biggest purse, gave Ambassador Bruce the score. The EGA would not spend a dime of the U.S. taxpayer's money in Argentina until the Peron government gave some hard & fast promises to: 1) sell to the U.S. at world prices; 2 ) sell to Marshall Plan countries at world prices; 3) resume payments on U.S. investments in Argentina. Because Europe and the U.S. expect bumper crops this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE HEMISPHERE: Hard Reality | 8/23/1948 | See Source »

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