Word: peso
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Aside from willingness to contribute, prime requisite for F. o. B. membership is to be "a fellow being with a bellow feeling" to enjoy windy punning and complex ritual. Payment of one peso initiation fee makes the joiner a Whiff (all non-joiners are Snuffs, ritualistically defined as "infinitely worse than a cross-eyed toad with athlete's foot"). A Whiff becomes a Puff when he pays his first month's levy. A Puff becomes a Gust when, after his entry, 1,000 planes have been shot down and he has paid in ten pesos. When...
...Pierson announced from Buenos Aires last month that the Export-Import Bank was lending Argentina $20,000,000 for any use she might want to put it to in the U. S. (TIME, Oct. 7). Since Argentina needed industrial equipment and supplies for her new 1,000,000,000-peso arms program, Pierson's announcement seemed to forecast a new era of U. S.-Argentine cooperation...
...syncopated mastery of an auburn-haired young woman named Le Verne. By way of encouragement to the patriotic spirit of the times, the production closes with a copper-tinted ballet entitled What's On The Penny, reminding the audience that "E Pluribus Unum . . . isn't on the peso, isn't on the lira, isn't on the franc...
Meanwhile Argentina went ahead on its own. Argentine Congressional committees studied a 1,000,000,000-peso (about $220,000,000) defense budget, increasing by 60% the sum asked only two days before and establishing a South American record...
...basis of the financial paper's announcement, which contained no details, the peso strengthened slightly in relations to the dollar...