Word: dollar
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Trying to move TIME two centuries back presented problems. A typical one: how to explain what 18th century money was worth. Answer: the 1776 dollar, which meant either the Spanish silver dollar or Continental paper redeemable in Spanish silver, would be worth, on the basis of new U.S. Commerce Department figures, about eleven of today's dollars, and the pound sterling about 50 dollars...
...William Green, the drummer in Washington's guard, was accused by Forbes of organizing the recruitment of disaffected American soldiers. Specifically, Green admitted recruiting Hickey for a payment of 2 shillings (Forbes also gave the soldier half a dollar...
...Congress began issuing the bills last June. Since the Government has promised to redeem them in Spanish silver dollars-the most popular coin circulating-they have been given the Spanish name: dollar...
...Pauline Kael has unmistakably earned her pedestal. With a gritty, grappling brand of opinionation (and largely because of it), her review slot at the New Yorker has often produced sparkling minor masterpieces. She's become the Chopin of the pan. When she lights into "Lost Horizon," the multi-million dollar clunker in Reeling, it's a virtuoso performance. "To lambast a Ross Hunter production is like flogging a sponge," she writes. "He is to movies what Liberace is to music, and once, on a television talk show, I saw them both. . .and the two unctuous smiles came together. Mr. Bland...
...chief sponsor: "If there is one symbol of the Establishment ripping off the people, it is the oil companies." The companies, which have suffered a series of blows in recent years, including nationalization of many of the foreign oilfields they developed, have pulled out all stops in a multimillion-dollar lobbying campaign to defeat the bill. In the view of American Petroleum Institute Vice President Charles DiBona, "There couldn't be a worse time to even be considering this economic tomfoolery...