Word: money
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...across the border to El Paso. Each deal had at least two profitable angles: 1) it evaded the export tax; 2) the bank sent out old-style silver pesos, whose metal value is now higher than the face value, and replaced them in its own accounts with paper money...
...next two seasons Joe Barbao tried to get the Pirates to watch Stan play. A Cardinal scout got there first. Although he was shy about most things, 17-year-old Stan had seen enough poverty to be hardheaded about money, and he signed the contract with misgivings: the Cardinals had a reputation for paying their help poorly. In 1938, when the late Judge Landis decreed that 91 Cardinal farmhands (including Musial) were free agents, Stan sat back again and awaited a call from Pittsburgh. Instead he had a personal visit from Eddie Dyer. After a long apprenticeship as a minor...
...trifle in 1942, his first full season in St. Louis, and hit a respectable .315. His salary did not figure to make him rich, but he remembered one of the reasons why Eddie Dyer advised him to become a Cardinal-the possibility of a share of World Series money. His first two years in big-league baseball, thanks partly to Musial, the Cardinals won the pennant. His shares amounted...
...when Musial rejoined the club after 14 months in the Navy, Eddie Dyer was the new manager of the Cardinals. In Mexico, Jorge Pasquel was spending big money to lure U.S. big-leaguers into his Mexican Baseball League, and he was making the biggest eyes of all at the Cardinals. With the clink of gold, he signed up three of themf and he had the Adam's apple of a fourth bobbing like a pogo stick. The fourth man was Stan Musial...
Wives & War Bonds. The union's case, argued chiefly by Murray and Labor Economist Robert Nathan, was based mainly on the claim that the workers needed more money. Said Murray: "To the wife of any steelworker the high cost of living is a household reality . . . Savings have been depleted. War bonds have been cashed...