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Word: dollarses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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In the crowded last days of war, May 1945, a convoy of Nazi trucks, speeding away from the advancing U.S. troops, was hastily abandoned in upper Austria, 37 miles east of Germany's Berchtesgaden. One stalled truck yielded 23 chests crammed with expertly forged British ?5 and ?10 notes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: Loot from the Lake | 8/10/1959 | See Source »

After long debate, federal officials decided that Carbondale's unusual plight made it deserving of federal help. The present agreement makes the stricken city an urban redevelopment district. Two million dollars will come from the Federal Government, $1,000,000 from the state. Homes and other real estate in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Fire Under the Streets | 8/10/1959 | See Source »

(5)Finally, in a frantic outburst, you claim that the M.D.C., "in an appalling example of un-Americanism,... handed over a quarter of a million dollars of tax-money (and plenty more to come) to a group of the socially prominent, and those who hope to achieve social prominence by...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: An Open Letter to AlCapp | 8/6/1959 | See Source »

In autos, bounding back from the red ink of 1958, Ford Motor Co. led the march far into the black. Chairman Ernest Breech reported that Ford's second-quarter earnings of $2.76 a share (Ford lost money in the same quarter last year) were the highest for any quarter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Far into the Black | 8/3/1959 | See Source »

The small cars sped along the road to plenty side by side with their bigger brothers. American Motors, which made money through 1958, is outdoing itself in 1959. From President George Romney came a beaming report of April-June earnings of $2.70 a share, more than double last year'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Far into the Black | 8/3/1959 | See Source »

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