Word: money
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington Hotel, sent out invitations to every big shot in town and a slew of industrialists, statesmen, bankers and railroad executives. (Winston Churchill cabled his regrets.) Once before, when Sam Rayburn lost the speakership to Republican Joe Martin, Boykin had wanted to do something for him, and he raised money to buy as handsome a Cadillac as the official car he had to give...
...wife and nine children all under age. I had a mine accident in 1942 . . . got my back and both legs broke. I am unable to do any work . . . Part of my children had to finish school without any shoes and part of the time they didn't have money for lunch. I have three babies that ought to have milk to drink and I can't buy it for them . . . I have no other income only what I get from the welfare fund-and that's $170 and I'm awful thankful for that...
...multimillion-dollar Welfare and Retirement Fund. With the 20? paid to the union fund for every ton of coal mined, John L. Lewis and his U.M.W. were fighting a kind of poverty and despair unknown to most of the prosperous U.S. So far, said Fund Director Roche, the money has been barely enough to attack the "backlog of human misery [that] has been rolled up through decades" in the mining country. In the past twelve months, she said, the fund took in $90,891,905, but had to spend $14 million more than it took...
...million. Before flying to Washington last week, where he is seeking new recruits for the fast-dwindling U.S. occupation staff, High Commissioner John McCloy promised Mayor Reuter that he would try to get direct Marshall Aid for Berlin. The U.S. expected the city's defense to continue costing money...
...crony went to Pramote's lavish house. Pramote and a Ceylonese friend had just come back from the races at the Royal Turf Club. The Dwarf twirled his two Lugers, sarcastically asked Pramote: "Can you spare 300 deals?" (about $15). Pramote said his wife had all his money; she was out. The Dwarf waited. When she arrived, on a three-wheeled Siamese pedicab, he grabbed her purse; it contained only keys, a compact and some change. The Dwarf shot her in the chest, wounding her seriously...