Word: dollars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dollar diplomacy" (dollars for diplomatic ends, rather than diplomacy for dollars) meant that different nations would need different treatment. The world (which could not be bought) could be convinced that democracy was still a vital force, able to tackle the galling problems of the world's plain people. Dollars were not a bribe or a club. But they were an argument...
...brilliant night life was forthwith blacked out. Three million-dollar establishments in the capital-the Urea, Atlantico and Copacabana-shut down...
Amber got kicked out of bed. After 38 days of exposure (at $10,000 a day), the multimillion-dollar boudoir epic looked like a bust to Darryl Zanuck, who decided to throw it all away and try again, later. Blonde little Peggy Cummins, British actress who had been chosen to play the lead, was apparently out of a job. But she got another. After all that buildup as a Restoration pillow-fighter she was suddenly transferred to Bob, Son of Battle-something wholesome about a sheep...
Recommendations for the five dollar increase in the medical fee were included in a report submitted by Dr. Bock last September but, due to printing difficultie, not issued until this week, concurrent with Faculty approval of the measure...
Safe Investment. In the 19103 a $9,000 Western was a major production. Even in the '203 cowboys would take a fall for a dollar and bulldog a rider off a running horse for two. Today stunt men get $35 per fall, $100 more for tougher stunts, $250 for a high dive into a lake. The average Western cost $15,000 to $35,000 in the '303; today, rising costs have boomeranged this...