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...down just as fast. His teams won pennants and finished dead last. He set attendance records (his 1948 season total of 2,620,627 in Cleveland is still a major league mark) and flirted with bankruptcy. A confessed "publicity hound" who for years stumped around on a wooden peg (he lost his right leg as the result of a World War II inju ry), he spent money like a drunken sailor on sparkling Burgundy (he calls it "bubble ink") for himself, fireworks, exploding scoreboards, blaring bands and tightrope walkers for his wide-eyed fans...
Their names, if they were married, were Peg and Tom, Jane and Bill, Jeremy and Jennifer. Single men were always called Brick or Brock or Bruce. Unmarried girls needed a gallant name; it was usually Helen. They lived in a smallish, unidentified city in an immemorial Indiana. The men spoke to each other in a language called kidding ("You old son of a gun"), and the women talked somberly about "our marriage'' as if marriage were a large, fragile china object one kept in the front hall. They led decent, busy lives, and the worst sinners among them...
After vainly trying to stem a run on the sagging Canadian dollar, the government decided to peg the Canadian dollar's exchange rate at a low 92½? to the U.S. dollar. (In Canada, the U.S. dollar will be worth...
...exchange rate bob free ever since 1950. But the IMF, and its able Swedish director, Per Jacobsson, have been increasingly irritated at the way Canada has been manipulating its dollar to try to jog the slumping Canadian economy. The IMF turned up the heat on Ottawa to peg its dollar at a fixed rate...
...Outrageous!" trumpeted Erhard. At his insistence, West Germany's Cabinet discussed the possibility of punishing the automakers by cutting the tariffs on imported cars. But Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, never averse to taking would-be Heir Apparent Erhard down a peg, remained silent, and at week's end, despite continuing blasts from Erhard and the threat of three parliamentary investigations, the automakers still stood fast...