Word: dollars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pitting of farmer against labor here in Minnesota in a divide-and-rule program has long been Republican and Farm Bureau strategy, and proposed anti-labor legislation has been particularly vicious. Farmers would like to have dollar-a-pound butter but don't want labor to get the dollar to buy it with. . . . The farm attitude expressed by the head of a large producer cooperative in Minnesota was put in these startling words: "When there is enough butter, there is too much!" Mr. Ball ought to realize that the farmers have been on a sit-down strike...
...From the extreme left come screams of pain and wrath. The Communist press flays 'trusts and Tommies' guarding 'the Dollar Curtain.' Pro-Communist Pietro Nenni's Avanti slammed at the right for welcoming the so-called American protection: 'Germans yesterday. Americans today. Italians never...
...western countries of South America are running out of the blue chips of international exchange.Chile's war-won pile of U.S. dollars has shrunk. The dollar balances of Bolivia and Peru, never impressive, now look like peanuts. Ecuador's hoard, despite a bin-busting rice crop, has leveled...
Like a child about to go on his first picnic, the American President Lines could hardly contain itself. On April 16, it exuberantly announced, it will resume round-the-world cruises. They will be in the old luxurious "Dollar Line" tradition (but at a new price of $2,213.75, including Government tax, an increase of almost...
...they like, catch the next ship that strikes their fancy. Out are such favorite prewar diversions as getting off at Kobe, going by rail and small boat to Korea, then to Peiping to see the Temple of Heaven, then buzzing down to gaudy Shanghai to pick up the same Dollar liner they left at Kobe...