Word: dollars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York's Democratic Congressman Arthur G. Klein suggested that the Treasury print a three dollar bill, bearing a portrait of the late President Franklin D. Roosevelt...
...months since the government slapped an embargo on all but the most essential imports-in a desperate attempt to conserve Mexico's dwindling dollar credits-smuggling has become an organized, multimillion-dollar racket. And the 4,570 gleaming new automobiles that have clandestinely crossed the border are only a part of the story...
...Greece to produce an Augustus, a Vergil . . . Something important is about to happen, as if the wonderful jeunesse of America were suddenly to retain their idealism and vitality and courage and imagination into adult life, and become the wise and good who make use of them; the old dollar values are silently crumbling, and the selfcriticism, experimental curiosity, sensibility and warmth [of America] are on then-way in. For Americans change very fast...
Unlike the great cigar-puffing Jockey Tod Sloan, who went in for monocles, valets and lavish entertainment (Tod once threw a $25,000 party for Actress Lillian Russell), Arcaro believes in the durable dollar. His chief extravagance is clothes; he owns 40 suits, mostly conservative greys and blues. He drives a 1947 Cadillac, reads FORTUNE to keep hep on industry, and invests in such blue-chip stocks as A.T. & T. He likes Scotch, but mostly on Saturday nights. He knows what happened to some of his predecessors...
Three judges--Frederick Lewis Allen '12, editor of Harper's, Edward Weeks '22, editor of the Atlantic Monthly, and Louis N. Lyons, curator of the University's Nieman Foundation--based the one hundred dollar award on Wood's whimsical short story, "A Very Young Rabbit," in the February 28 Lampoon...