Word: dollars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These two facts you left out of your article, and they are far more important than 800,000 square miles of land and ice and $70 million which Denmark owes the U.S. investors. It may be true that it is "more dollar exchange than Copenhagen can easily raise," but . . . this is more than a question of national pride and dollars. It is a question of vital significance to all small countries in the world. They have been given the impression that the United States fought for the same principles that they themselves believe in; but if the United States...
...three days of confusion, the Chinese dollar rocketed from 10,000-to-1 U.S. dollar, to 14,000-to-1. One day this week a foreigner walked down a crowded Shanghai street carrying Chinese currency, bundied but unwrapped, up to his chin like kindling wood. He was unguarded-and safe...
...that bad. China's largely agricultural economy has not much to do with foreign-exchange fluctuations in Shanghai. But the latest slump in the Chinese dollar, aggravated by inept Chinese Government public relations and feverish reporting, was bad enough...
...surface Budapest is a purged Babylon. The wild inflation of six months ago has been curbed by drastic Russian measures. The street-corner financiers with their briefcases full of dollars and the peddlers who sold Leicas, slightly used countesses and pearl-handled revolvers are in hiding. The possession of U.S. dollars is now a death offense. The joke to match: Q. "What are they giving for the dollar these days?" A. "Sixty." Q. "Forints?" A. "No, years...
...days sports were merely amiable contests among a group of gentlemen seeking healthful exercise, and witnessed by perhaps a handful or two of casually interested passers-by. But our high-speed civilization has made even recreation a big business. Professional sports endeavors have reached up into the million-dollar levels, and salaries and gate receipts have hitched onto a fast-ascending skyrocket. What once passed for friendly "amateur" sport can no longer escape the commercial aroma of its play-for-play brethren, whose breeding grounds must still exist upon the college and school level. Rather than set themselves...