Word: dollars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year-old war veteran named Charles J. F. Porter went to New York's National City Bank, asked for a $312 loan, got it, and was then startled half to death. Bank officials discovered he had borrowed the billionth dollar granted by the institution's personal loan department and celebrated by airily telling him he wouldn't have to pay the money back...
Like some 70,000 other Americans, a West Coast advertising executive wanted to go to Europe this year. Like many of the others, he was worried by stories of fantastic prices, poor food, primitive living conditions. But he went anyway, firmly resolved to cut corners, stretch every dollar to its limit. What he found out was that the ubiquitous black market in currency enabled tourists to eat well and travel cheaply, though there was a slight risk in patronizing...
...mail it to him. That saved the 15% U.S. tax ($158). Other tourists would not save as much by this trick. The tax is now in effect only on domestic travel. He met the black market in Paris the first time he handed the clerk in his hotel U.S. dollars to exchange. The clerk, who was running his own black exchange, gave him 230 francs to the dollar (official rate...
...pressures most powerfully at work are those of grim necessity: 1) U.S. prices have already risen precipitously since the loan was negotiated a year ago; 2) Britain has to buy more food than she expected from the dollar countries-the U.S., Canada, Argentina-because crop recovery in the soft-money countries has been slower than expected, 3) frosts, snow and floods have heavily cut Britain's home food supply (a quarter of all the sheep and lambs in the country died this winter...
...quickly and how much can he gain on Hollywood? In Britain, if his production reaches 100 pictures a year -the maximum with present studios-he may cut Hollywood to 70% of the total box-office take in the United Kingdom, thus cut the dollar drain on Britain by about $20,000,000. On the same production basis, he might send enough top pictures to the U.S. to step his profits up to $18,000,000. This would be a blow to Hollywood. But Rankmen bumptiously predict that within five years they will be digging up $50,000,000 in Hollywood...