Word: dollars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...copy of the latest issue of 'Sex Thrills' magazine, filled with the spiciest photos an stories you've ever seen. Modesty forbids my reading you a selection from the true story I Was a Bar Maid in Phoenix City, Alabama,' but for just fifty cents, one half a dollar, you can read not only this revealing tale of a young girl's downfall, but a large number of other stories, special articles an features...
Kitty & the Dollar Princess. For years, Vienna's Typical American was a rich heiress who traveled about the Continent buying up lesser kingdoms. Trilled the Dollar Princess Waltz, in Vienna's golden...
These are the dollar princesses...
Nowadays, the Dollar Princess has been supplanted by a set of far more complex characters, chief among them Kitty Duval, the poetic prostitute in Saroyan's The Time of Your Life. Baffled Vienna listened to her megalophilic yearnings: "I like champagne, and . . . big houses with big porches, and big rooms with big windows, and big lawns, and big trees, and flowers . . . and big shepherd dogs sleeping in the shade." Wrote one critic: "What does he want, this Saroyan? If he did not live so far away, in San Francisco, I would go and ask him." But Viennese crowded...
Something for Free. Standard is equally sensitive to the cry of "dollar imperialism." In foreign countries, Standard's subsidiaries work ceaselessly to become a part of the country. They keep their U.S. employees at a minimum, train natives or send them to the U.S. for schooling. Actually, Standard has probably done the best job of any U.S. company in selling free enterprise along with its oil. Nor has it been discouraged by its setbacks. The war cost it an estimated $135,000,000 in damaged properties; the expropriations by Mexico cost it more than $22 million...