Word: dollars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tapestry chair seats, stitched up by Queen Mary and donated to a British dollar-raising drive called Women's Home Industries Ltd., brought $10,000 at auction in Manhattan...
...Budapest and a resident of the U.S. for only seven years, was too surprised to make a thank-you speech. He had found three commercial substitutes for inflammable ethyl ether. Being the youngest of the finalists, he had not expected to win. Said he: "I bet some body a dollar I wouldn't, so I'd be sure to get something out of the deal...
...leftist Premier Mauno Pekkala began packing for a trip to Moscow, others in Finland were also snapping their suitcase locks. Swarms of Baltic and Russian refugees swamped Helsinki's Swedish consulate seeking visas, and in their near-panic quest for hard currency the open market price of a dollar shot up from 700 Finn-marks to 1,000. Finland's Communist
...prodded him on to parlay their strike into a billion-dollar network of mines and banks that dominated the economy of Bolivia and reached into British and German smelters and Malayan mines. But even a Croesus' fortune could not get Simon into Cochabamba's exclusive Spaniards' Club Social...
Spit & Matchstick. As "depression architects," the partners had learned all about making a dollar go far. On one of their first jobs-redesigning Los Angeles' Clifton's Cafeteria in 1933-they took out their fees in meals. When their plans won first place in a competition for the Pan-Pacific Auditorium, Wurdeman, a good man with a racket, spent his share of the fee to join the Westside Tennis Club-and incidentally to get some business from its Hollywood members. Soon Wurdeman & Becket were building actors' homes by the dozen. From then on, as Wurdeman says...