Word: dollarses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The Visit. A rich witch offers to buy the life of a man who once wronged her -for a mere billion dollars. This surrealist, symbol-clogged but fascinating fable may be Alfred Lunt's and Lynn Fontanne's last visit to Broadway.
Speaking at a panel discussion on city traffic and transportation problems, Brennan pointed out that present law requires the police to cite a parking violator six times before the fine can be five dollars or more.
The dialogue is many notches above most comedy material, and full of little declamations perhaps characteristic of a novelist on vacation. The crook Lorre says, "Time. Squandered by Italians. Disbelieved by the English. Dallied with by the French. Changed to dollars by Americans. I think Time is a crook."
¶ Persuaded friendly Interior Secretary Fred Seaton to shut down oil production on their 275 wells-thereby depriving oil companies (and themselves) of hundreds of thousands of dollars-so as to force the companies to rush completion of equipment that will salvage precious gas, which was being flared off for...
The campaign has already proved its worth. Last year practically every calf born in Florida was infested with screwworms, and total infestations of cattle averaged 35,000 per month. Since March, only 600 cases were reported-the equivalent of a saving of many millions of dollars for Florida cattlemen.