Word: dollars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ellery Garage is the chief beneficiary of the local gendarmerie's efforts. They collect not only the five dollar towing charges but also a dollar-a-day storage...
...Removal of exchange controls, to let Canada's dollar seek its own level (which would be well below...
Died. Charles Henry Ingersoll, 82, co-founder of the Ingersoll watch company ("the watch that made the dollar famous"); from injuries when he was hit by an automobile; in West Orange, NJ. Ingersoll and his brother Robert turned out their first dollar watch in 1892, made about 100 million of them before they went bankrupt and their assets were sold to the Waterbury Clock...
...although he has recently served on many local citizen's committees. His campaign will emphasize restored price control, long-range housing and slum clearance programs and repeal of the Taft-Hartley and Selective Service Acts. He has declared himself in favor of a roll-back of price levels, a dollar-an-hour minimum wage, anti-Jim Crow legislation, and a U. N.-without-political-strings...
...comparative prices, a meal of shrimps, wine, tomato and potato salad, more wine, steak and, of course, French fried potatoes and more wine, and cheese for dessert costs a dollar at any of the restaurants off the large boulevards. Movies range from a dime to a dollar, the opera four times a week can be enjoyed for thirty cents, the Folies start at sixty-five, and exhibitions for five run around a buck and a half each. These are computed at the legal rate of exchange of 3000 francs to the dollar...