Word: dollars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mickey Devine, ex-showgirl who won a million-dollar divorce settlement from auto heir Horace E. Dodge Jr., lost a court fight with an old bodyguard named Mae Andrews, who complained that she had ten months' back wages coming to her. Mickey told the jury Miss Andrews was just a house guest who "stayed on & on." Not so, said Miss Andrews; she had been hired to protect beautiful Mickey during her million-dollar fight-hired to protect her from violence, frame-ups, and from her own strong bias towards the opposite sex. Among Miss Andrews' body-minding duties...
...Officially the ruble is 5.3 to the dollar, but the diplomatic rate of 12 to the dollar is nearer its actual value...
...coastal blackout went into effect in April 1942, no one was forced to grope as much as Doug Leigh. Starting with $50 and a case of mumps at the depth of the depression, he had parlayed his native talents of salesmanship, showmanship and inventiveness into an electrified million-dollar business. He owned or operated the biggest single block of the dazzling and ingeniously animated signs along Broadway, when the lights were turned...
...left A.A.R.'s house. As he left, he fired a Parthian shot: The A.A.R. "has encouraged . . . noncompetitive practices," thus also encouraged Federal antitrust action. It has fought to perpetuate discriminatory freight rates helpful to the Eastern, bank-run roads which dominate its affairs. "To squeeze the last dollar of revenue from obsolete equipment . . . technological development has been discouraged." To Young, wartime difficulties were not a sufficient excuse for the way roadbeds and trains had bruised and beaten passengers. And, he added, it was the C. & O., not the A.A.R., which had forced improvements, e.g., the introduction of through-transcontinental...
...corpses on the road. A girl no more than 17, slim and pretty, lay on the damp earth, her lips blue with death; her eyes were open and the rain fell on them. People chipped at bark, pounded it by the roadside for food; vendors sold leaves at a dollar a bundle. Ghostlike men were skimming the stagnant pools to eat the green slime of the waters. Once our horses sheered off violently from two people lying side by side in the night, sobbing aloud in their desolation...