Word: dollars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fill Vacuums. Seven and a half hours later, bright as a dollar, Harry Truman faced his press conference. On his desk were some typed pages which he picked up, saying briskly that he had a short statement to make...
...Talk. Latinos, watching the U.S. plan to spend billions of dollars to aid Europe, generally feel that their own needs are being overlooked. ERP's promise of dollar-financed purchases in Latin America, mostly from Argentina, do not satisfy them. They want U.S. dollars to build up home industry, raise cellar-low living standards. The most the U.S. was prepared to offer on the eve of the conference was an increase of $500 million in Export-Import Bank lending authority, and an easing of the bank's rules so that more dollars could flow southward. There might...
This willingness seemed to be the reason he had been picked to help supervise the billion-dollar airlines industry. "If they're looking for someone with an expert knowledge of the aviation industry," said he, "they've got the wrong guy. What I know about the CAB and its problems is no different from what the average citizen knows about it from reading the newspapers...
Draft of 19 to 25-year olds and a three billion dollar expansion of the armed forces was demanded yesterday by the three armed forces cabinet members, who named Russia as a possible enemy...
...Yankee Dollar. U.S. tourists spent $37,000,000 in the British Isles last year, topping all other single British sources of dollar revenues (textiles brought $36,600,000 and beverages $33,600,000). This year Britain hopes that the U.S. tourist trade will bring in at least...