Word: dollars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meat exports were declining alarmingly. Because the government had dillydallied with new export rules, trading in hides and skins had all but stopped. Miranda had priced linseed oil right out of the export market. To save its vanishing dollar exchange, the government was even making it hard for immigrants to send money home to Europe (contrary to the immigration treaties with Italy and Spain...
...token of victory over Maroglio, bumbling Czar Miranda immediately announced a new economic policy. The nub of it: forget about dollars. Said he: "To try to get more dollars out of the U.S. is merely a waste of time." What Argentina should do, he told a meeting of provincial finance ministers, was to buy outside the dollar circuit, as it was already doing in the case of newsprint (from Finland) and of oil (from the sterling area). As for the U.S., it was buying Argentine products at the rate of $200 million a year; henceforth Argentina would limit its buying...
Twenty years ago a cocky youngster named Clement George McCullagh quit his job as assistant financial editor on the old Toronto Globe, to get into the million-dollar deals that he had been writing about on Toronto's Bay Street. His boss warned him against it, but McCullagh's mind was made up. "The next time I come in," he boasted, "I'll be buying this newspaper out from under...
Under the plan, a student will be able to buy a "purchase card" from NSA for a dollar. This will entitle him to a discount of from 10 to 20 percent at all the stores agreeing to the plan...
...magazines, publishers of books and anthologies, etc. In a recent month reprint permission was granted to such varied organizations and individuals as a physician who wanted to quote from three TIME Medicine stories in a college textbook he was revising; to a newspaper chain, which wanted to run Billion-Dollar Hangover (TIME, April 5) on its editorial pages; to a University of Kansas sociology professor who wanted to use the Jackie Robinson cover story (TIME, Sept. 22, 1947) for classroom discussion; to the Military Training branch of the New York Port of Embarkation, which wanted to use various stories...