Word: one-dollar
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Little pieces of paper, when stuffed into people's pockets or pock etbooks, wear out less quickly than big pieces. Also, little ones can be made into one-dollar bills more cheaply than big ones...
Because of these two simple facts, the Treasury Department long ago decided to reduce the size of the one-dollar bill from 7.7 in. by 3½ in. to 6% in. by 2⅝in., thereby saving the U. S. Government some $2,000,000 annually (TIME, June...
...sheets of currency, a large proportion of which was in the form of one-dollar bills. It is the one-dollar bill that has been the great staple of U. S. currency. Even the most modestly salaried individual can "flash a roll" of ones. Homely, democratic, sanctified by custom, the one-dollar bill has been taken to the U. S. bosom, lovingly christened "bean," "buck," "berry," "simoleon," "iron man," "smacker," "plunk," "rock," "kelp" (always in the plural which employs no "s"; e. g. "14 kelp."). Meanwhile the Treasury Department has found itself faced with a printing bill of millions...
First, the Treasury tried to popularize the silver dollar, but the country as a whole would have nothing to do with the heavy "cartwheels." Next, an attempt was made to put more two-dollar bills into circulation. Of course if two-dollar bills replaced one-dollar bills, there would be just half as many bills in circulation and the cost of replacement would be cut in half. Even a slightly greater use of two dollar bills would effect a material savings. But the "unlucky" two spot remained obstinately unpopular...
...Some small saving to the Government can be made by having only one kind of one-dollar bills instead of four as at present (greenbacks, silver certificates, National Bank notes, Federal Reserve Bank notes...