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Word: dollarses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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The Administration measure extended unemployment compensation payments 50% beyond state limits (which now range from 16 to 30 weeks, depending on state laws), with the Federal Government lending the money to the states. But no sooner had the proposal reached Capitol Hill than House Ways & Means Committee Democrats came up...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Down with the Dole | 5/12/1958 | See Source »

Chevrolet Dealer Robert Knoepfler sold 15 new cars and trucks in April, cleared out 25 used ones. At first he figured that he had simply cut into his competitors' business. Then Clay Carriker, manager of Greene's Ford, said that his new-car sales for the past 60...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Boom Times | 5/12/1958 | See Source »

"Why Not Five?" Susskind's hand is always out, while his mind is nimbly at work on projects that range from the selling of nylons to the peddling of statues of the Virgin Mary. Fidelman desperately attempts to fend him off, first with handouts, then with insults, but Susskind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Old Men of the Sea | 5/12/1958 | See Source »

Fatal Mistake. But through three fine rounds, the tension bothered California's Billy Casper, 26, not at all. He went up to the 17th tee on the final afternoon tied for the lead, matching stroke for stroke with the coolest customer on the course: Canada's balding tournament...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: How Much for a Golfer? | 5/5/1958 | See Source »

The cheering note for J. & L. President Avery C. Adams, along with other steelmakers, is that the hundreds of millions of dollars which they have poured into new plants and equipment are beginning to pay off in greater efficiency. Adams told stockholders that J. & L. can soon break even when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Cash on the Line | 5/5/1958 | See Source »

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