Word: dollars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bureau Chief Curt Prendergast tried to track down Lord Harlech; in Dublin, a stringer searched out the remaining Kennedy relatives. Washington's Bonnie Angelo, summoned from a Detroit union hall where Hubert Humphrey was promising higher social-security pensions, hurried eastward to deal with the world of million-dollar yachts and $3,000 dresses. From San Francisco, Bureau Chief Judson Gooding filed a personal reminiscence on the Jackie he knew when they were both students at the Sorbonne...
...starting in Buenos Aires as a telephone lineman at 25¢ an hour, he worked into the tobacco business, importing Turkish and Bulgarian blends that became immensely popular in Latin America. Three years later, he had saved $20,000; by the age of 23, his tobacco had made him a dollar millionaire. Then came the Depression, and with an eye for a bargain and a hankering for the sea (Odysseus was always his hero, Ithaca his spiritual homeland), Onassis began buying merchant ships. From Canadian National Railways, he purchased half a dozen vessels in 1930 at $20,000 apiece. Each...
...have accused West Germany of economic aggression. Partly because of the recent recession, the country will spend about $4 billion less for imports this year than other nations will spend for German goods. That only increases the strength of the mark at the expense of the pound and the dollar...
...upward revaluation of the mark would be a quick if drastic way of righting the balance by putting the undervalued mark on a par with the dollar and the pound. In effect, however, that would raise the prices of Germany's exports, perhaps crippling its vital auto industry. Recently, Schiller responded to persistent revaluation rumors by snapping, "Nein, no, non, nyetl" He means that Germany is not about to pull down its own house-especially when others have yet to put their own economic households in order...
...President Adams--at anchor off the coast of Trinidad on July 4, 1800--an atmosphere of sultry, pulsing mystery should surround the action, beginning when Delano describes the bizarre view through his telescope: "I see a sulphurous have above her cabin,/ the new sun hangs like a silver dollar to her stern;/ low creeping clouds blow on from them...