Word: dollars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...University's hampering of undergraduate activities that lead to a loyal, as well as generous, alumni body stretches to other things besides purveyor lists, and, to be blunt, can only result in a smaller and smaller dollar harvest from the already less copious graduates. Such exorbitant charges as $30 for running off the stencils of the Album's mailing list, general milking of graduating classes for every cent of the wasteful costs of Class Day exercises, leave rancid tastes that are bound to linger through the years. And it is still expected that, through an almost dead class loyalty...
...Representative John Taber of Auburn, N.Y., had been whacking away at the Administration's $1,353,000,000 bill for foreign aid. The various expenditures which it included had all been authorized. But Congress still had to appropriate the money, and John Taber was going to finger every dollar. He denounced the bill; he tilted furiously at the "Marshall approach," which he claimed even Marshall could not explain. He likened U.S. efforts in Europe to "a ward heeler trying to catch the floaters with a $5 bill...
...Kiwanians sent a three-man committee (including the sheriff, a Kiwanian) out to the winner's one-horse farm to tell him. that he couldn't have the car. The committee was generous about it. It gave 25-year-old Harvey Jones, an ex-G.L, his dollar back. Then the Kiwanians held another drawing, and this time the winner was a well-to-do white dentist...
Hard-boiled and well-fed economists might contend that the British were wrong to spend so much money on food and tobacco. But even with the dollar food purchases, the British diet had remained on the thin line that divides discomfort from malnutrition. If British workers had eaten less in the last year they probably would have produced less...
...been too happy about it. Last week, when Hollywood's Eagle Lion movie company moved into town to use this year's Stampede as background for a new horse opera in cinecolor, old man Waines gave up. "They're exploiting the cowboys just for the almighty dollar," he said...