Word: dollars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then for four years, through Fort Worth's "blue northers" and hot summers, he worked away at his game. He picked up a fair dollar any way he could, working at dozens of odd jobs. The next time he hit the golf circuit (in 1937) he had two mouths to feed: he had married attractive Valerie Fox, a home-town girl he had known since they went to kid parties together. They skimped on food and entertainment. Ben haunted the practice tee, even brought his putter back to the hotel to practice...
...like a race between Citation and a $1500 dollar plater at the Arena last night, as Holy Cross scintillating basketball team handed the varsity its fifth straight defeat, 64, to 48, before a near-capacity crowd of about 5,000. The Crusaders led at halftime...
Practically everybody who wanted a job had one. Almost everybody was taking home more dollars each week than ever before. Nearly all business indexes were hovering around their high marks. But the curves on the wall charts in executive and sales offices were flattening out. And if allowances were made for the decreased buying power of the dollar (9.3% less than a year ago), many lines of business showed a drop in the actual volume of goods handled...
...Exchange will run a half-million-dollar advertising campaign next year to try to clear up "the unfamiliarity among savers, particularly in the labor and farm groups, with corporate securities." The Exchange will plug stock purchases as a regular part of the family saving program. The specific target: earners of $5,000 a year or less. Said one hopeful Stock Exchange member: they "constitute the hope of the financial community...
...layoffs were still small enough to have little effect in an economy where production and national income were still at peak levels. But it did underline a fact which many had forgotten. In a buyers' market, labor, too, is a commodity which has to work harder for its dollar...