Word: dollars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...much as 2/6 (about 50? at current exchange rates). Reason: no alien periodical could enter Great Britain without special permission from the War Office, except in single copies through the mail. And the increase in postage that newsstands had to pay was aggravated by the rising price of the dollar...
...Automobiles were the largest item of instalment buying in dollar volume, accounted for 50% of the gross increase. Next: furniture (18%); electric refrigerators...
Comparable to F. D. R.'s "One Third of a Nation," hundreds of ill-housed graduate students are living out their Cambridge years in over-costly and inhospitable rooms. A few dozen of them have already taken refuge in the International House whose non-profit rates have packed the dollar with new buying power. Rooms that go for $5 or $6 a week on the usual Cambridge auction block have been reduced to $2.50. Meals are only $7. Almost like Good Housekeeping's "Dream House", the cooperative venture stands as a model that might well be imitated...
...Cincinnati, thought the Reds had a chance to beat the Yankees. For precedent they pointed to 1914. In that brave year the Boston Braves, depending almost entirely on two brilliant pitchers (just as the Reds did this year), trounced the walloping Philadelphia Athletics, rated-with their hundred-thousand-dollar infield-the greatest team in major-league history (just as the Yankees are today). Such wishful fans cited the fact that, out of 34 World Series, 13 had been nabbed with just two pitchers winning the necessary four games. Only five years ago the famed Dean Brothers (Dizzy & Daffy...
...called him a dreamer and escapist, were annoyed at his criticism of their pioneering ("a filibustering toward heaven by the great western route"). Poets thought him too science-minded, his language too earthy. Conservatives thought his Civil Disobedience revolutionary ("I do not care to trace the course of my dollar . . . till it buys a man or a musket to shoot one with. . ."). Radicals and reformers like Alcott thought him anti-social ("God does not approve of the popular movements," said Henry, who believed in reforming oneself first). The good citizens of Concord simply called him a loafer who had thrown...