Word: money
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Instant Losses. When the word got out, the speculators tried to dump the old MFCs they were holding. The black-market price dropped to 50 piastres by midafternoon. As the market crashed, money-changers along Saigon's Tu Do Street suffered instant losses that ran as high...
...tendered off the base, G.I.s who were short of Vietnamese piastres often used it to pay bills in native stores and bars, generally exchanging it near the official rate of 118 piastres to the dollar. Such MFCs would then wind up in the hands of Chinese and Indian money-changers, who in turn realized a fast profit by selling them at 140 piastres to the dollar...
...Image is no exception. The mystery here lies in the recesses of Annabel's personality. "She had never been given to problems" and is slow to recognize catastrophe when it comes calling. But Billy and Luigi succeed in leaving the truth at her door. "We have some Vatican money in this movie, confidentially," purrs Annabel's practical Pygmalion. "The reaction to those letters would finish your movie career...
...schemes and designs of subtler minds. At 25, she is an heiress. Her mother died in a plane crash; her father, a homosexual tycoon, was a suicide. Her guardian was her father's partner in business and in bed. He alternately tries to manipulate her for her money or avoid having to confront...
...sympathizers voted yesterday to have an anonymous supporter with Army PX privileges buy the food that is distributed in the sanctuary room. A student whose father is an Air Force officer told the crowd that the government loses money on PX sales...