Word: dollars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...return for construction work and repair jobs at scattered weather outposts, the government will pay a token wage of one dollar a day and provide living expenses for properly qualified candidates. The expedition will leave Boston on July 15 and return on September...
Whatever came of these and other recommendations, one thing was obvious: Latin Americans will get no dollar handouts on the Marshall Plan scale, and they might as well accept the fact. One Latin government had already done...
...Brookings Institution, has long been a middle-of-the-road economist who sometimes seems to be trimming his square-rigged economic sails to the Administration's wind. He neatly dodged predicting either inflation or deflation. What the country was going through, he said, was "disinflation" (a five-dollar word for burp). It was quite a different thing from deflation, he explained. Deflation means a collapse in the price structure, but "disinflation" merely takes the upward pressure off prices.* Everything would be all right, he said, if the public would avoid the jitters "over the healthy" decline in prices going...
Monte Carlo's Casino, out for the U.S. dollar, decided that the way to get it was in a good old American way. Last week, Louis Ceresol, boss of the money-losing Casino (TIME, May 3), and one of his croupiers visited Las Vegas and Reno, Nev. to learn how to shoot craps...
...million-dollar cast is a bust...