Word: dollars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plight, explained Miss Josephine Roche, onetime coal operator (president of the Rocky Mountain Fuel Co.), is just a sample of the cases in the files of the United Mine Workers' multimillion-dollar Welfare and Retirement Fund. With the 20? paid to the union fund for every ton of coal mined, John L. Lewis and his U.M.W. were fighting a kind of poverty and despair unknown to most of the prosperous U.S. So far, said Fund Director Roche, the money has been barely enough to attack the "backlog of human misery [that] has been rolled up through decades...
...Mickey was also thinking of the future. After all, he was only 37 years old. "South America looks pretty good," he mused. "They tell me you can get four for one dollar down there. Maybe I could be a millionaire...
...jargon divides crisis solutions into "short-term," "middle-term" and "long-term." The finance ministers' meeting sought results in only the first two categories. The short-term program called for a ?60 to ?100 million cut in imports by the rest of the Commonwealth (excluding Canada) from the dollar area. The middle-term scheme was a new pattern of trade and production so that the sterling area could produce more of the supplies now being imported for dollars. What Whitehall calls "the multilateral stuff" (longterm) will be left for further talks in Washington this September...
...expensive. Dutton's division expects to spend some $4-500,000 of emergency funds this year-and next year may be worse, for grasshopper populations have a way of building up over a series of years. But the effort pays off: the Agriculture Department claims that every dollar it spends on scotching grasshoppers saves $55 worth of crops...
Even in areas of the economy where the drop in business had seemed most striking (e.g., retail sales), the slump was deceptive. In both unit and dollar volume, the first six months of retail sales in 1949 were close to 1948's first half...