Word: peso
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Parker then got Janesville's merchants to agree to accept each peso at a fixed value of 20? (current exchange: 4.83 to the dollar), got the banks to agree to take them from the merchants at the same rate...
Parker warned his fellow townsmen that U.S. exports are 2½ times greater than imports, that the rest of the world is running short of dollars with which to buy U.S. goods, that this "may well cause a serious recession in the U.S. economy." He hoped that his "Peso Pay-Off Day" would impress upon Janesville that "your Congressmen and Senators can go a long way toward averting this danger by reducing [import] barriers...
...time he was an adolescent, the Revolution had shaken the tight social system which Mexico had inherited from Spain, and opened wider horizons to young men. It wrenched power from the cautious hacendados (landed gentry), who seldom took a chance with a peso- except over a gaming table. It handed power and wealth to half-educated generals and to adventurous businessmen not greatly different from the men who built the U.S. Whatever their sins, the new bosses were willing to bet the wad on Mexico- at least, the part they did not keep for themselves. They took such sleepy colonial...
Mexican judges knew little of silicosis in 1929; company lawyers cried that Lawyer Aléman had invented it. But Aléman had studied a report on silicosis in South African mines. For Pedro Aguayo he won a 4,900-peso verdict. A week later he had 3,000 more such cases. A week after that he had a brand-new car. By month's end he and his partner-chubby Gabriel Ramos Milland, now a senator-had 16,000 cases. They got 25% of all judgments, figured half of that clear profit...
...Bingham, can restore Mr. Durocher to baseball and society. We humbly suggest that the Harvard Athletic Association take immediate steps to sign Leo Durocher as first assistant to baseball coach Dolph Samborski. You, Mr. Bingham, must save Leo from the Mexican peso and the Yankee choler...