Word: dollars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lieut. General Albert C. Wedemeyer had made that condition painfully clear to all Chinese last summer, though at first most of Nationalist China had read a far different significance into the Wedemeyer visit. They thought it implied, at last, U.S. readiness to help. Their morale soared. Their dollar had steadied at about...
...action on the U.S. side. Before taking off for the German treaty talks in London, U.S. Secretary of State Marshall had indeed promised certain limited aid-beginning next April. But to the Chinese, the absence of moral support drained much of the political effect from the promise. Every U.S. dollar was cut in value because the grudging tone of U.S. promises encouraged the Reds and discouraged the Nationalists...
...their wheat and sold it abroad for as much as $5.75 (TIME, Sept. 29), keeping the difference to pay for the "fiveyear plan." Last month, when they threshed their wheat, they held back as much as they could. Last week, with the crop trickling slowly to the docks, the dollar-minded Argentine government weakened, agreed to pay farmers 24? more a bushel, plus a further 24? a bushel if they would deliver the grain before July...
...shut-up banker's approach to most problems. At the church's annual fund-raising he says: "Give what you think this church is worth to you. If you think it's worth a dime, don't let anybody talk you into giving a dollar...
...more than three times the free market rate in New York. They could either sell their options in the U.S.-at a huge discount caused by the Dutch regulations; or in Holland, where the proceeds would be frozen. The Dutch blandly said they were only trying to prevent a dollar drain...