Word: dollars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Perfunctory Venom. In Paris the sun shone on the Red Flags bordering the Place de la Concorde. But in the warm spring air the paraders sauntered listlessly, shouting their war cries with only perfunctory venom. A few demonstrators shouted: "A has la politique du dollar!" (Down with dollar diplomacy!)* in front of a Marxist movie from the U.S.-A Night in Casablanca, starring Groucho, Chico and Harpo. A woman stood weeping as she watched the Red Flags flutter close to France's own tricolore. "In the days of the occupation," she said, "Nazi flags, too, were sandwiched between French...
...what they want to do, are keen to modernize Nepal, but do not want to hurry. Their plan now is to sell a modest amount of jute, linseed, probably drugs and some musk (the perfume-producing sac of the musk deer). In that way, they would create a small dollar balance with which to buy U.S. machinery and hire U.S. technicians. Nepal's younger generals asked U.S. help in making economic surveys, inspecting possible sites for hydroelectric power, furnishing some machinery for mills in the Nepal lowlands. They also talked about a project for a high-class tourist trade...
...Orleans' world-trading citizens. The 20 acres officially became a free port, the only one in the U.S. outside of New York's foreign-trade zone. New Orleans, now busting its buttons in its zeal to build up its port, second biggest in the U.S. in dollar volume, hoped that its foreign-trade zone would lure ships to the mouth of the Mississippi as New York's had brought ships into its harbor. For the South, now filled with a new spirit of industrialization, it was another step forward...
...stock in Megalopolis, Greece. At eight he ran away to Athens to sell papers; by nineteen he had saved sufficient money to join the great immigration wave to America and to make sightseeing stopovers along the way at Marseilles, Paris, London, Liverpool, and Halifax. Reaching Boston with one lone dollar to his name, he first worked in a friend's establishment on Essex Street and after a brief stint on his own in the Hub made the move to Cambridge. He had never enjoyed an education of his own so basking in the erudition of others appeared an attractive substitute...
...ease of bringing off these limited coups has apparently blinded the Committee members to the bigger facts. Russia, for instance, is now completely free to press the propaganda activity which so recently ran many Congressmen's benzedrine bill sky-high and made them back the projected 400-million dollar "diplomatic offensive." The Committee's implied faith that the 27 nations hitherto reached by the broadcasts and booklets of the OIC will continue to believe in America's aims through a process of visceral induction is one that the Soviet propagandists will greet with bulging squeals of delight...