Word: pocketbook
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...best, however carefully and sympathetically planned, price control would be in conflict with the traditional U.S. system. And many a businessman considers Chester Bowles far from sympathetic-possibly because, in his fight for the consumer's pocketbook, he has become the darling not only of the nation's housewives but also of its noisiest leftists, who like to think of price control as a step toward planned economy...
Cash & Carry. In Des Moines, a war bride, fresh from New Zealand, labored under a pocketbook heavy with coins, and the notion that she had to change a bill every time she bought something...
...some 185,000 G. I. Janes. Many of them too are eligible for free training, under the G. I. Bill of Rights. Last week the New Jersey College for Women (Rutgers University) was well on its way with a program especially designed for Jane's plans and pocketbook...
Professor Richards has written many books on Basic, and to illustrate its practicability, has translated Plato's "Republic," the Atlantic Charter, and other important documents into the simplified vocabulary. A popularized, illustrated self-teacher, entitled "The Pocketbook of Basic English" will appear early next year...
Lone Game. Actually this sanction was puny punitive step that shocked Argentina's pride more than it hurt the Argentine pocketbook. A point not made in the State Department bugle-call statement about its action was that only eight, or fewer, U.S. ships a month had been calling at Argentine ports. Most Argentine exports to the U.S. have been carried in Argentine bottoms, which are still free to enter U.S. ports. Latin American and Brit ish ships continue their brisk trade with Argentina...