Word: dollars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sokolovsky's proclamation, a "spontaneous" demonstration took place in front of Berlin's City Assembly. It was like a dry run for a Putsch. A cursing mob stormed into the building. When a U.S. official came up, the mob yelled "Let the dollar prince pass...
...days before the big bout, the secret leaked out: Jacobs, fearful that fans might stay away from Yankee Stadium if they knew the fight would be televised, had gagged the network and the sponsor. Too much ballyhoo in advance might spoil his chances of a hoped-for million-dollar gate. This week, satisfied with the look of his box office, Jacobs gave NBC a nod. Eastern set owners could relax, and bartenders prepared to handle the biggest crowds in history...
...proposing a widespread rotation of the not-too-pleasant duties of the public service. And I do not mean merely part-time 'dollar-a-year' service alone. I propose that out of the best and most productive years of your life, you should carve out a segment in which you put your private career aside to serve your community and your country, and thereby . . . your children, your neighbors, your fellow men, and the cause of freedom...
Knowing Shaw was a hard man with a dollar, the agency's London office thought Shaw's endorsement might be obtained by "a combination of audacity and a large sum of money" ($4,000 was suggested). New York suggested London try "audacity ... leaving the money for him to bring up." Audacity worked. Shaw first repudiated the quote-it was "manifest nonsense," he said, to call Ireland a land of peace-then he composed a substitute...
...story rated a Page One banner headline. The Tribune's story: a $15 million-a-year subsidy from the Federal Government had been secretly arranged as a "reward" to a selected few U.S. newspapers, magazines, book publishers and film companies "which shouted the loudest for the 6 billion dollar Marshall Plan...