Word: pocketbook
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...England, whose Yankee pride and pocketbook have been hurt of late by the southward migration of the textile industry, could boast of checking its downward economic trend. While 21,000 textile jobs in the area disappeared during the year, more than that number opened up in such new fields as electronics and light metals.Typical of New England's Yankee ingenuity in creating new jobs was the feat performed by the little town of Harmony, Me. Its 700 harmonious citizens contributed $22,000 to pay one-third the cost of a new shoe factory which will employ 120 people...
...evening, bought cards for the big $1,000 game, and appropriated the corner table. Some time during the evening, the woman with the "winning" card substituted a matching orange card with unnumbered squares from a supply in her automobile. Then, as the game proceeded, she took dies from her pocketbook and stamped winning numbers in the blanks, while her friends huddled around...
From the narrow stubbles of Vermont to the vast fields of Kansas, U.S. wheat farmers last week filed into courthouses one-room schools, community meeting halls and country stores to make a decision. The question they faced was one of both principle and pocketbook. Should they accept stern federal control of wheat production in return for high price supports, or should they take their chances in a free market...
...Jury (United Artists), the whodunit by Mickey Spillane which has sold 3,500,000 copies in soft covers and put sadism within reach of the average pocketbook, has now been made into a movie which should reassure all readers who think that Spillane's brutal yarns are just a bloody bore. The film, the first to be made of a Spillane work, is so triumphantly bad as to foster the hope that it may be the last...
...creature of expediency, begot by the cotton gin on anti-conservative ideas of economic determination. The ante-bellum South prattled Calhoun's words, wallowed in Walter Scott, spoke the noble language of local rights and traditions. But it acted, in the crisis, out of the motives of the pocketbook, according to the way Bentham and Marx said men must...