Word: money
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Enclosed is a postal money order in the amount of $12.50 to cover the cost of one year's subscription to TIME...
Surprise, Surprise . . . One day last week she knocked down a .22 calibre rifle she had bought in a pawnshop, put it in a suitcase, took all the money she had in the world ($85) out of the bank, and booked a room for three days at the expensive Edgewater Beach Hotel, where the Phillies and Eddie were staying. She told a girl friend mysteriously that by the following night the girl would have all kinds of exciting things to talk about. The next afternoon she and another girl friend saw most of a game in which the Phils beat...
...make up for the drop in peso income, Gonzalez Videla was ready to ask Chile's Congress for permission to issue new paper money. With part of the money, backed by government-supported bonds, idle copper hands would be employed on public works projects...
...folding left the scientific field dominated by money-making Popular Science (circ. 1,170,000) and Popular Mechanics (circ. 1,035,000), which turn out easily understood science news for their educated laymen, gadgets and shop hints for the young and the mechanically minded. But Science Illustrated's readers were more likely to shift to the recently revivified, upper-middlebrow Scientific American (circ...
...world is closing in on the Class of 1949. For the last 20 years or so, today's graduates have been floating along through life with the aid of nurses, parents, school-teachers, and more recently, for some, government money. And most seniors realize that this happy state of affairs is going to end pretty soon. Some are trying to postpone the day of reckoning by sneaking off to graduate or professional schools, or by hiding cravenly in summer jobs or Continental tours. But the world is closing in on everybody--and it's no bargain...