Word: dollarses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fleshpots & Long Shots. The contribution of Tijuana (pop. 140,000) to the new prosperity is, as always, tourist dollars. Last year just under 10 million U.S. citizens passed through the arched gates at the border, dropped an estimated $70 million at the Hipódromo de Tijuana race track and...
Ice-Cream-Cone Pagoda. Hoping that their city may become an Italian Lourdes, the people of Syracuse are busy preparing a new home for their Madonna. Twelve acres of land near Sicily's greatest Greek theater (a major tourist magnet) have been set aside for a shrine, to be...
WASHINGTON, Jan. 5--The Rockefeller studies group said tonight the United States must boost defense spending by about three billion dollars each year for the next several years if it wants to halt a "rapidly" deteriorating position in the military race with Russia.
Malaya. Southeast Asia's newest independent country is politically and economically its healthiest. Conservatively governed Malaya has squelched its Communist guerrillas; surviving Communists are now taking Abdul Rahman's amnesty offer in heartening numbers. The fact that 40% of the population is Chinese is a potential source of...
King-Size Necessities. With more money to spend (personal income rose to $343 billion v. $326.9 billion in '56), the U.S. spent more of it ($280 billion) than ever before on a shopping list of modern-day necessities that included 6,400,000 TV sets, 4,000,000 phonographs...