Word: one-dollar
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...freezing weather, paraded six women. Four, husky and broad-beamed, wore corsets over their street clothes. The other two, streamlined company models, just wore corsets. What they were demanding: a closed shop, higher wages. All they had got at week's end: publicity, three fan letters, and a one-dollar bill from an admirer who hoped that willowy Model Georgia Ray would use it to buy herself a pair of bloomers...
...Association sends out two sets of letters; one a two-dollar appeal to the social registerites of Cambridge, and the other, a one-dollar plea, to certain other residents of the city, Harvard students included. This year the two-dollar group have come through with $400 and the other Cantabridgians with...
...priced theatre for the masses. "But the state isn't interested in such things." Miss Le Gallienne solved this conflict between her faith and her belief last season by founding in Manhattan the Civic Repertory Theatre. She has distant plans for a theatre which, supported by one-dollar subscriptions from a tiny percentage of the city's citizens, could give notable drama for a fee of 50? a seat. These things Miss Le Gallienne told journalists last week. Journalist's discovered that the $5,000 which had just dropped into her lap would be applied...
...one-dollar bills will start coming off the presses on Nov. 1, but will not reach the public's hands until February (after a two-month's supply has been put in the Treasury reserve). Twelve bills will be printed on each sheet going through the presses, instead of eight as is the case with the present bills. Half of the bureau's 5,000 employes will be used in producing the new bills...
...people of the U. S. wear out 1,500,000 one-dollar bills every day Eighty per cent of the total currency production is one-dollar bills...