Word: dollars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...months, international bankers have considered an upward revaluation of the German mark to be inevitable (TIME, Dec. 20). Last week Chancellor Willy Brandt's new government announced that the muscular mark henceforth will be worth 27.3 cents-or 3.66 marks to the dollar instead of the old four-mark rate...
...outside Germany, but German industrialists argued for a lower figure. By making German exports more expensive and foreign countries' exports more competitive, the change should reduce Germany's huge export surplus. That will help currencies like the French franc and the British pound, as well as the dollar. In London a Treasury official expressed satisfaction with the size of the revaluation saying, "The rate seems intended to be helpful to other countries." Significant changes in the parities of other currencies are not expected...
...revaluation can be viewed in two ways. The 8½% change measures the difference between 4 and 3.66 marks per dollar. The increase in the mark's value from...
Gambling is continuous on all fronts. Last night in the back room, Weenie Beanie was finishing up a two-day head-to-head gin rummy battle with an unknown card player from the west. Sadly pushing threc hundred-dollar bills into his opponent's pile of green paper, he was heard to remark, "I'm stuck so bad now, I can't stop...
NOTORIOUS LADIES OF THE FRONTIER by Harry Sinclair Drago. 270 pages. Dodd, Mlead. $6. What drove the West wild was ladies named Millie Hipps, Mattie Silks, Mammy Pleasant, Madame Moustache, Lurline Monte Verdi and Silver Dollar. Carefully chronicled and not a cuss word throughout...