Word: dollars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last April 11, he received a telegram which might well have set his ganglia to twanging. In it one James J. O'Neill requested the privilege of moving U.N. from Hunter College in The Bronx to its new home at Lake Success, Long Island. His proposed fee: one dollar...
BERLIN--United States Army criminal investigation agents said today they had uncovered a multi-million-dollar, worldwide black market ring operated by a single New York family with sons in Berlin, Paris and Shanghai...
...impressive performances like these, George Zook gets a salary of $18,000 a year-more than a Cabinet member's. The offices of the million-dollar American Council, a block away from the White House, reflect Zook's own prosperous but conservative air. A.C.E.'s main output: solid studies about everything in education from A to Zook...
...absence. When frantic newsmen telephoned for details from the West Coast, New York and other parts of the U.S., he purred that the prosecutor would be "back tomorrow" and would be glad to talk with them then. At week's end, the Morning Star was still holding a dollar for its tipster. He had not left his name...
Prices in Britain vary greatly. Most meals are limited in price to five shillings (about one dollar) but night-club and liquor prices are double those in the States. Theatre tickets run about the same as on Broadway; films are far more expensive. Those commodities that constitute the necessities of life are rationed and priced reasonably, but any luxury sells at outrageous prices, largely because of the sale tax. The average cost of a new British automobile, smaller and less powerful than the smallest Chevvy or Ford, runs about three thousand dollars. Concomitantly, wages are ridiculously low according...