Word: dollars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...deal is not all beer & skittles. Latin America, like Canada, trades in U.S. dollars. Because their dollar supply is dwindling, all countries except Venezuela and Cuba are restricting imports. That means fewer profitable trips for Canada's traveling salesmen. But they are not downhearted. Said Canada's Trade Minister James Angus MacKinnon last week: "The lively interest . . . both in this country and in the Latin American republics, in what each has to offer the other . . . has been extremely gratifying...
...these restrictions were intended to reduce the drain on Britain's dwindling dollar supply; 'but they would close only a third of the gap between what Britain sold abroad and what she bought abroad. The other side of the scale was British production. A higher production rate was supposed to close the other two-thirds of the import-export gap. If every coal miner worked five minutes more a day, for instance, he would produce as much in exports as the British Government hopes to save by the new gasoline restrictions. What were the chances that British production...
...sharpest husband & wife program, finally went off the air in 1944, after 14^ years and some 2,400 broadcasts, Goodman and wife Jane decided to watch the ponies and take life easy for awhile. But within six months, Goodie was back in radio, earning just about the top dollar for a writer ($3,000 weekly) as Danny Kaye's chief scripter. When Kaye left for Hollywood, Ace quit again...
Parker then got Janesville's merchants to agree to accept each peso at a fixed value of 20? (current exchange: 4.83 to the dollar), got the banks to agree to take them from the merchants at the same rate...
...that they would let me know what the Republicans were paying for votes that year, and that if we would add a small amount to the price, we could probably elect the Democrat. A few days before the election they . . . told me that the Republican buying-price was a dollar and a half a vote, and that if we could raise the ante to a dollar seventy-five we would be successful. It is hard to admit that I was as gullible as I was. But I gave them the money, and the Democrat was beaten worse than any candidate...