Word: mickey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mickey Mouse Era. Cause of the inflation was no mystery. The Islands were picked clean by the Japs and goods are scarce. Souvenir-hunting G.I.s and well-heeled Filipinos snap up the thin leavings at any price. Moreover, the Filipinos themselves became accustomed to fantastic prices when the Japs flooded the Islands with their "Mickey Mouse" paper money. At one time, five pounds of rice cost 1,000 pesos in Jap printing-press currency...
Jascha Herfetz, one of the world's great violin virtuosos, came off second-best at General Omar N. Bradley's little entertainment in Germany for a group of visiting Soviet generals. After Heifetz and Cinemactor Mickey Rooney had drawn polite applause, three unidentified G.I.s and three WACs went into a groovey jitterbug routine that sent the delighted Russians right out of this world...
...fact: On his first day at school, 5-year-old Peter Mathews was annoyed by the nice lady who asked him strange questions and made him put blocks in holes. After the lady decided which group he belonged in, things began to seem better. On the second day, a Mickey Mouse cartoon telling how to pronounce the alphabet, a play session with model airplanes, and a telecast of Mother Goose songs ushered Peter into the wonderful audio-visual-tactual routine that was to keep him fascinated during all eight years of studying the "Common Learnings." At first he disliked being...
Said city councilman "Mickey" Sullivan last night, "The bill has been passed by the City Council after public hearings and will continue in effect until such time as the Council decides otehrwise. As was the case in New York in 1942, we have come to the conclusion that a pinball machine is a gambling device even if the player receives nothing but another chances to play...
...drive, the personal ambition, the incentive that ours does-they have to talk to so many people before anything gets done." The Government is everywhere, even determining what mildly dirty jokes may be told at a banquet. "Walt Disney is more often than not in the Soviet doghouse since Mickey Mouse frequently deviates from the party line...