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Word: dollarses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since British subjects will still be rigidly limited in the amount of sterling they can convert into hard currencies, the British action falls short of true convertibility. But henceforth, foreign businessmen will be able to change pounds freely into dollars (at an official rate ranging between $2.78 and $2.82). The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN EUROPE: Toward Freedom | 1/5/1959 | See Source »

The workman who once put aside a few dollars a week towards his retirement, now buys into the market through a mutual fund or the Stock Exchange's Monthly Investment Plan. So does the middle-income white-collar worker who hopes to send his son through college, the matron...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Business in 1958 | 12/29/1958 | See Source »

Reading the cases, we easily tend to be cynical and dismiss the entire thing as a maudlin attempt to cash in on our sympathy, so generous and outgoing at Christmas time. Some readers, of course, might be moved to send in a few dollars to help Mrs. Bella H., 85...

Author: By Edmund B. Games jr., | Title: Comfort and Joy | 12/16/1958 | See Source »

Remarks by John Mason Brown '23, enlivened the meeting's proceedings. Brown, in a semi-serious proposal to add $10 to every student's tuition in order to procure funds for student drama, noted, "The University spends over $100,000 a year on athletics; the teams have shown that this...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Overseers Like Design For Proposed Theatre | 12/16/1958 | See Source »

In his office at Convair in San Diego last week, Space Age Planner Krafft A. Ehricke inspected the first 20-in.-long model of Helios,* a chemical and nuclear spaceship he envisions for interplanetary travel. For two hours Ehricke mused over his Helios with three visitors, while he suggested minute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TOYS: Models to Mars | 12/15/1958 | See Source »

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