Word: dollars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Policy Board. Said the congressional report: "Unyielding adherence to service loyalties at the expense of national security is a luxury the nation can no longer afford." To these rebukes, outspoken Carl Hinshaw, vice chairman of the congressional board, last week added another: "Our country is not getting a full dollar of effective preparedness for every dollar spent...
...Horloge of the Foreign Ministry, the conference chairman, Ernest Bevin, told them: "I think the world might be assured that this organization is not a conference but a workshop. It will be charged with the duty of determining practical steps to build up European production [and] to reduce the dollar deficit...
There was a chance that PM would go on, in drastically different form, under diminutive Clinton D. McKinnon, a shrewd newsman who pyramided a string of Southern California throwaway shopping papers into the million-dollar San Diego Journal (which he recently sold). He offered to take over from Field if the C.I.O. American Newspaper Guild unit would abandon its tough PM contract and meet his tough terms, including the right to hire & fire at will for three months. The reported price tag: $300,000 for plant & equipment...
Department stores were still waiting for the Easter rush. Dollar sales were still above last year (by about 5%), but unit sales had slipped alarmingly. And the $372 million slump (10%) in charge accounts between Dec. 31 and Jan. 31 had been a good bit more than seasonal. Merchants were worried...
...part of a two million dollar nationwide program to aid in the teaching of cancer research, the Medical School will receive a grant of $25,000, the Federal Security Agency announced yesterday. The money is from the funds of the National Cancer Institute of the U. S. Public Health Service. Thirty other medical and dental schols will get lesser sums, including the Boston University School of Medicine...