Word: dollarses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In their fight to cut foreign-aid appropriations. House Democrats put on a cloak that was tailor-made for their uncomfortable posture. As onetime champions of mutual assistance and onetime foes of isolationism, they could not use the well-worn cry-"Why pour good U.S. dollars down foreign ratholes?'...
Cross-Country Effect. The effects of the rate touched all of Canada. In Montreal a spokesman for the Canadian Pulp and Paper Association, whose members sell newsprint for U.S. dollars, complained that the "abnormal and artificially high value of the Canadian dollar" had created an "urgent and pressing problem" for...
¶ Lauro assigned 77 city cars to his cronies for personal use, ordered the city to pay the license fees, taxes and even the repair bills, allowed the cronies to fill up their private cars at city gas pumps. Estimated cost of the largesse: several hundred thousand dollars yearly. ¶...
CANADA'S DOLLAR is up to all-time high of $1.058 in U.S. currency, largely because of heavy investments by foreign companies, which must convert their currencies into Canadian dollars.
Dollars for Ancestors. In the van of the mad, meandering mob wandering the face of Europe last week were the travelers from the U.S. Fortnight ago, American Express had reported an early-season drop in Americans abroad, perhaps induced by unsettling reports of inflation and shortages and trouble overseas, but...