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Word: dollarses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Why continue to pour billions of dollars of aid into Communist countries when it has failed to make them cooperative or even happy ? Let's try beer.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 29, 1958 | 9/29/1958 | See Source »

His harshest criticism is for other Japanese businessmen who copy foreign goods without paying royalties. Says Matsushita: "Other nations also copy, but they pay; Japan virtually steals. My company buys foreign patents or negotiates technical tie-ups with foreign companies, but the government stares coldly and says: 'Matsushita, you...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUSINESS ABROAD: Amps in the Pants | 9/29/1958 | See Source »

VOICE: "Hard sell, soft sell, what shall it be? Hello, friend, this is Nathan Marsh Pusey, President of Harvard, with a reminder that American colleges will face difficult times in the years ahead. Help the college of your choice by contributing your dollars. American education and Harvard thanks you."

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Word to the Wise | 9/27/1958 | See Source »

Real poetry was not a part of "Wullie" Service's spirit, or his life. Even as an English-born bank clerk in Glasgow, he dashed off doggerel for the weeklies, and burned with an adventurer's ambition to make a million dollars, write 1,000 poems, and live...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: The Yukon Troubadour | 9/22/1958 | See Source »

In one collection or another, Dangerous Dan grossed its author half a million dollars; and another early Service ballad, The Cremation of Sam McGee, earned such widespread prominence that its real-life namesake (whose name Service casually lifted from a bank ledger) spent all the remaining days of his life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: The Yukon Troubadour | 9/22/1958 | See Source »

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