Word: dollars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Billion Dollar Baby" purports to be a musical about the fabulous twenties. As a cynical ballyhoo of all that is shallow in the Jazz Age, it contains some outstanding ballet by Jerome Robbins, danced by Joan McCracken, some interesting if not catchy music by Morton Gould, and a negligible book. But it treats neither the twenties nor the audience the way they should be treated...
...bomb has served the purpose for which it was conceived. Let one more be made and dropped on the two-billion-dollar project; let lips be sealed as to its secret; let each nation agree to punish by death any outlaw who presumes to foster its search...
...Army had decided that the cargoes were surplus. In a matter of hours the Office of the Foreign Liquidation Commissioner, which handles foreign surpluses, had sold the cargoes of wheat, construction materials and medical supplies to the United Nations Relief & Rehabilitation Administration for $3 million (80ff on the dollar...
...UNRRA could draw against the $150 million contribution which the U.S. has made in surplus to UNRRA. But in a desperately needy world there were few other buyers. Why? Yankee Trader. Chief trouble had been FLC's notion that it should sell surpluses to foreign governments only for dollars. This policy flopped because foreign governments either 1) have no dollars at all, or 2) none to spare. Nor did the policy make sense to U.S. businessmen. For every dollar FLC drained off there would be one less dollar for foreign buyers to spend for U.S. exports. Thus the only...
...find room in Tombstone, motor the 72 miles from Tucson or the 20-odd miles from Bisbee and Benson to take the treatment. The old Crystal Palace Bar is in full swing and sick people wander around visiting the site of the OK Corral and gawking at Million Dollar Stope, a caved-in mine near the middle of town...