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Word: dollarses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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The McClellan committee also found that the Teamsters had assigned some $60,000 to an "Unemployment Relief Fund" that did not exist in bank records. But Frank Brewster, who by week's end had admitted that as of Dec. 31, 1956 he owed his union $79,000 and some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Cash on the Whang Bang | 4/1/1957 | See Source »

When the Brewster-Newell horse partnership broke up in 1955, Newell, who had put in most of the money, emerged with a $40,000 loss. Brewster, who insisted that sometimes he really walked the horses, somehow came out with a $44,000 profit. The Brewster-Newell accounts still have not...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Cash on the Whang Bang | 4/1/1957 | See Source »

With the right kind of clearance to a U.S. missile base, the visitor will find there, maneuvering amid weird lunar landscapes and weirder towers, blockhouses and cables, perhaps an ebullient scientist in an aloha shirt, or a fresh-faced lieutenant from M.I.T. handling millions of dollars worth of rocketry, or...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: The Bird & the Watcher | 4/1/1957 | See Source »

It was San Francisco's worst quake since 1906, but seismologists reported that it hit only 5.5 on the Richter scale, just one-thousandth as strong as the big 1906 disaster. Property damage-broken windows, cracked walls, crumbled brickwork -reached into the millions of dollars. But there were no...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: The Big Shrug | 4/1/1957 | See Source »

Melted the Goose. In Memphis, safecrackers cut into a safe with acetylene torches, made off with 400 silver dollars, left the charred remains of $3,000 in cash and checks.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 1, 1957 | 4/1/1957 | See Source »

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