Word: dollars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...could cut spending, and get the unbalanced budget back into balance. This was tempting, but a cut in the really fleshy parts of the U.S. budget-the multibillion-dollar defense and foreign spending programs-might ultimately cost more than it saved...
...demanded their money's worth, but they were not afraid of expensive items so long as their money was going for quality and serviceability; in television sets, they largely ignored both the low-priced portables and super-priced sets with Chinese lacquer. Most stores expected a drop in dollar volume, but still anticipated a big and profitable Christmas rush...
Like other little magazines, Horizon could not find enough authors capable of writing what it wanted at prices that it could pay. What good authors it did find were soon lured to other, higher-paying British magazines or dollar-paying U.S. publications...
...season's ballads in a domesticated baritone. Behind him were 23 dapper and earnest young men, a quintet of well-groomed young women carefully schooled to furnish a plush vocal cushion for what has been called everything from "The Voice with Hair on its Chest" to the "Million-Dollar Monotone." The Jeanette (Pa.) High School boy-most-likely-to-succeed (Class of '29) was definitely a success...
Eying the dollar loss, some exchange experts thought that the pound might be in for more trouble, unless Britain removed her strict controls on its use. Warned the Wall Street Journal: "The pound is still a hobbled currency . . . The man who holds a pound sterling, with its limited usefulness, still wants to swap it for U.S. dollars or other money that is spendable anywhere any time . . . Under such circumstances, there is no 'rockbottom' price [for the pound...