Word: dollars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stop right there. Who said anything about reasonable? Give the waiter 20%, the captain a dollar or two dollars, the hatcheck girl 25 or 50?, the powder-room attendant a quarter, the doorman a quarter and the beggar in front of the door a quarter-then switch with the beggar...
Travel-hungry Americans have always liked Canada's wide open spaces and the fact that the U.S. dollar was worth $1.10. Now there was another reason for their desire to trek northward: a heavy-handed price control had kept food, lodging and entertainment prices well below U.S. levels. They had also been lured on by splurges like the $750,000 spent this year by the Canadian Pacific Railroad to advertise its hotels, by tons of gaudy literature, by newspaper and magazine ads plugging everything from Quebec's salty seaweed-fed lamb to junkets to Alaska and Hudson...
...lodges, resorts, hunting and fishing clubs in Quebec and Ontario. The resorts of Banff, Lake Louise and Jasper in the Rockies, closed during part of the war, would reopen June 15. They have already been booked solid. A select few tourists would confine themselves to the "million dollar" salmon fishing clubs along New Brunswick's Restigouche and Metapedia Rivers. Vancouver was assured a bumper crop of visitors for its July Diamond Jubilee to be highlighted by an $80,000 historical pageant...
When the "huge, dropsical monster" known as the Associated Gas & Electric System was finally driven into reorganization proceedings in 1940, 40% of its billion-dollar bulk turned out to be bookkeeping water. Last week, as the fabulous reorganization was ended, more water was struck. Manhattan's Federal Judge Vincent L. Leibell angrily said that fees asked by 72 lawyers and assorted utilities experts for the five-year job of dehydrating the monster were themselves heavily watered...
...everything-possible to give the impression that they are wellsprings of creative imagination. Most of these writers suffer from depression: they compensate by only associating with those of their colleagues whose weekly salaries are the same as their own. It would be unthinkable for a two-thousand dollar a week man to be seen with a friend who earns only a thousand...