Word: dollarses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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How Good? Whatever happens to the cost of stereo tapes, the price of a stereo rig-inevitably including two amplifiers and two speakers-is always likely to be higher than that of a conventional monaural setup. A stereo rig can easily run into many hundreds of dollars, but for the...
In a 22-story tower on the edge of Manhattan's bustling financial district, top officials of the U.S. Steel Corp. waited one day last week for a final figure to guide them in fixing the twelfth consecutive steel price rise since World War II. As soon as word...
Of all the alphabetical agencies set up during the Great Depression, none had a bigger job than the Reconstruction Finance Corp. Created under President Hoover, it lent billions of dollars to shore up shaky banks, railroads and other key institutions. Its Depression-fighting mission accomplished, RFC lived on in World...
Pinched for cash, the world's richest nation has often come off second best. At last year's fair in Bogota, Colombia, the U.S. spent less than $500,000 (v. $1,500,000 for the joint Czech-East German pavilion), had to resort to an unimpressive display of...
The Great Career Girl. Mrs Ayer was no less a Victorian than Mrs. Gladstone and (like all the best Victorians) no less unorthodox, but she was more spectacular about it. She spent 150,000 of husband Bert Ayer's iron and steel dollars on her Chicago household expenses each...