Word: dollars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After the first week of the Garden show the leading contender for the national cowboy championship was shy, shambling 27-year-old Paul Carney of Galeton, Colo. With 6,178 points (one point for each dollar won during the season-except in bronc-riding events, which merit 1¼), Cowboy Carney was 1,598 points ahead of his nearest rival. Competing in three events (bareback bronc riding, saddle bronc riding, steer riding), he appeared to have the title in the palms of his tremendous hands...
Undeterred, he norrowed ten dollars from a friend and left early the next morning. In Minea, New York, on Wednesday, he was arrested by railroad police. Before a justice of the peace be paid a two dollar fine and promised that he would steal no more rides...
Welles cabled to Washington a recommendation that $2,000,000 be loaned to Bolivia, with future tin sales as security, hinted a larger loan to Colombia. (Bolivia, in default now on $60,000,000 of dollar bonds, mostly bought by U. S. citizens, in 1937 seized U. S. oil properties worth $17,000,000, has refused to settle.) But bygones and bargains were secondary with Sumner Welles; he was concerned with a sea wall for the Americas-a wall to keep death out and let life flourish in the great continents within...
Payoff on Month I of World War II: some plunged in Beth Steel at $go-to-$100, hedged by picking up German Government dollar bonds (which went unnoticed from $5 to $9) on chances that they might go to $25 (netting 400%) if Hitler should happen to get his peace...
...lead on her. For not only has the U. S. long since entrenched itself as the No. 1 Latin American trader, but Cordell Hull's Good Neighbor policy and reciprocal trade agreements have begun to persuade Latin America to believe that Dollar Diplomacy is dead...