Word: pocketbook
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...Senate finally passed H. R. 1491 by a vote of 73-10-7, with no amendments. In seven hours and 51 minutes after it opened its special session Congress had sent President Roosevelt the first thing he had asked for-the largest grant of power over the U. S. pocketbook ever given in peacetime...
...same time, the real and unseverable connection between Peace and the Pocketbook has never been clearly understood. War has always been immediately profitable: prices and wages have risen, steel, the barometer of business, has always skyrocketed, leather, sugar, munitions, staples have always been in demand, farmers have been able to pay off the old mortgage. The depression thereafter for which the nation has had to pay with far more misery and death than for War itself is not connected with it in the popular mind...
...love me any more." When her husband heard about it, he gloomily remarked: "Ab, I don't blame you. I blame Libby. She's that kind of a girl. . . . I'm going to end it all. Here, you can have that." And Smith Reynolds tossed his pocketbook to Walker, went upstairs...
...democratic ideal it wisely made fifth floor rooms as attractive as those below, but unfortunately not a few more expensive lower rooms consequently went untenanted. The University scarcely asked too much for what it offered; it simply launched the Plan on a scale of living which taxed the undergraduate pocketbook too severely. Fortunately, however, it has belatedly reduced excessively high food charges; and there is every prospect that during the summer the Corporation will respond to undergraduate pressure by reducing room rents...
...drawn up by the Student Council, and placed in the hands of the Corporation. There is no doubt that it will give confirmation, if confirmation be needed, to the feeling that rents are excessive, and reveal an unbridgable gap between the present scale of prices and the post-depression pocketbook. No practicable juggling of suites, and no House Aid, will by themselves be adequate to the situation. A general scaling-down of prices, insofar as that is consonant with the financial obligations of the University itself, is clearly necessary. The Student Council's report should provide an excellent opportunity...