Word: dollars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lake Success a United Nations technical committee-after fine-combing the evidence a month and a half-found that six European countries could not provide "the basic essentials" this year without UNRRA-type relief. The dollar value of these needs, after deducting those the claimants can hope to pay for: Austria, $143.5 million; Greece, $84.3 million; Hungary, $40.2 million, Italy, $106.9 milion; Poland, $139.9 million; Yugoslavia, $68.2 million. Total: $583 million...
Heckled Winston Churchill in the House of Commons: "With regard to the dollar export . . . is it not the case that the price of a bottle of whiskey exported to America today in dollars is five shillings [$1] . . . and that there it is about five times that much...
...plotting to "destroy the dominance of the white race in the South"-and to suggest that his followers mail in nickels and dimes to pay for the radio time he had used, a matter of $1,637.66. To demonstrate his innate kindliness he even got himself photographed giving a dollar bill to a poverty-stricken Negro sharecropper...
...then he got interested in Alleghany. Young needed more cash than he wanted to risk himself, so he wrote a letter to an associate, Allan P. Kirby, the shy heir to a multimillion-dollar fortune made by his father in the F. W. Woolworth Co. Young told Kirby that he had a good proposition lined up, and Kirby came through with $3,000,000. The obliging Mr. Kirby, now president of Alleghany Corp., has been the financial angel in many of Young's deals ever since. It is actually Kirby's holdings, some 550,000 shares of Alleghany...
...left his headquarters to watch the goings on, "was struck several times." ¶ A brash Yankee prisoner, brought up for interrogation, pulls hair out of the tail of Jackson's horse. When Jackson demands to know why, the prisoner explains that each hair is worth a dollar in New York. Mild, modest Jackson, victor of a dozen battles, blushes at the compliment like a girl...