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Word: dollarses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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"Twelve hundred dollars a year."

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Our Innocents Abroad | 5/5/1959 | See Source »

Barely Black. Newsprint, which can account for 50% of a paper's budget, has soared from $41 a ton in 1933 to $135. The Linotype machine that sold for $8,000 twenty years ago costs $20,000 today. Technological gains in efficiency are largely neutralized by the fact that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Claw | 5/4/1959 | See Source »

Actual production was in the hands of husky young (31) George Ludwig, a graduate student who has proved himself a mechanical genius in the painstaking new art of space instrumentation. Each ounce counts, because it costs many thousands of dollars to put each ounce into orbit. The tiny, buglike components...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Reach into Space | 5/4/1959 | See Source »

How can the nation gain the competitive edge on foreign competition? Only a small number of U.S. businessmen really favor a return to Hawley-Smoot protectionism. (But many are bitterly resentful of continued foreign economic aid, which they regard as expenditure of hard-earned U.S. tax dollars to build up...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN COMPETITION: Homemade Challenge in World Markets | 5/4/1959 | See Source »

From across the Soviet border, Iran has been subjected to an unprecedented propaganda campaign of hate against the Shah. Powerful transmitters at Baku and Tashkent, between bursts of fine Persian music, devoted more time to programs in Parsi than the Russians spend on any other foreign-language broadcast except English...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: The Big Noise | 4/27/1959 | See Source »

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