Word: dollars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Originally, the Council Committee headed by John K. Lally '49 had hoped to obtain the use of the HAA's newly-surfaced parking field near the Stadium at a cost only of the State's dollar-a-year licensing...
...difficult to conceive of 310-year-old 200-million-dollar Harvard as being in severe financial difficulty. As a matter of fact, she isn't. The University merely faces the same monetary difficulties that institutions and individuals throughout the country face in a period of rising prices, to be followed, perhaps and maybe, by a depression...
Things get a little livelier in the second feature which, if not quite a thriller, at least offers automobile chases, loud pistol reports, and stony-faced intrigue. Entitled "Second Chance," it concerns a projected million-dollar jewel theft, in the course of which two of the crafty schemers fall in love. They double-cross their accomplices, enabling the movie to end on a clinch between two law-abiding citizens...
Most industries tended to maintain, if not raise, the dollar volume that had pushed first-half earnings to a peak. And most of the earnings were above last year's record heights. But some drops were shown by companies in such fields as food, textiles, retailing and electrical products. They were the first to feel a shift towards a buyers' market and consumers' balking at high prices. Thus, General Foods reported a third-quarter net of $4,463,255, or 5% less than in the same period last year...
Down the Dram. Britain laid her hands on an additional $240,000,000. She "bought" $120,000,000 from the International Monetary Fund, i.e., exchanged pounds for dollars. The rest she got by selling gold to the U.S. As Britain has now drawn $180,000,000 from the Fund, she can draw only around $151,000,000 more. Her total gold and dollar reserves are now down to some $2,500,000,000. Despite new cuts in imports, Chancellor of the Exchequer Hugh Dalton said that the sterling area's gold and dollars are still being drained...