Word: dollars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Walter J. Skinner '48, newly elected manager, tried selling the records at a dollar apiece. He got exactly $18. With this he bought stationery and sent out letters to alumni. From the return of $300 he bought more stationery, sent out more letters and received enough money to buy pants for his bandsmen. Skinner also persuaded Mal Holmes to become conductor. Mal, and to hear members tell it, the pants, have been here ever since...
...panel will be divided into two sections: Harris will talk about the "dollar crisis" and the North Atlantic Pact while Hopper, in another room, will serve on a panel discussing the arming of Europe under the Pact...
Rising proudly on a ten-acre plot on Soldiers Field Road stands WBZ's new three-million dollar radio and television center, and next to it the familiar 649-ft. transmission tower, the tallest structure in New England. Inside, an all-modern building houses the offices and studios of WBZ, WBZ-FM, WBZ-TV, and short-wave WBOS; the station realized two years ago that they were all too big to squeeze inside the old Hotel Bradford headquarters. Outside, next to the building, the high tower lights up the night sky and sends the station's FM and TV signal...
...week's end, the lira rallied at 688 (free market rate) to the dollar. Commodity prices showed no signs of rising. The Italian government had clearly won a round in the battle of the lira...
Ambassador Lewis Douglas was back in London after the dollar talks, minus the patch he has worn over his left eye since it was snagged by a wind-blown salmon hook last April. He paused on the front stoop of the U.S. embassy in Grosvenor Square to exchange grave greetings with an old family retainer named Reggie...