Word: pocketbook
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This public airing of the issue would be good for the nation's health-and its pocketbook. There was a situation which needed to be remedied. There was no doubt that with its technical and financial resources and social resourcefulness, the U.S. could find a sound remedy. But the hasty enactment of unworkable legislation, creating an unwieldy bureaucracy, was more likely to impair than improve the nation's health. Such a cure would be worse than the disease...
Assembling a custom built system requires three or four major parts: amplifier, changer, speaker, and radio tuner (if radio is also desired). How this material is installed and wrapped in a cabinet depends on individual taste and pocketbook...
...hours. But Reliance found that the house, boxlike though it was, cost around $10,000 when erected near a big city like Washington. After making only 134 houses in five months, Reliance closed down. Last week, like a merry uncle devoted to a profligate nephew, RFC reached for the pocketbook again. It lent Reliance another $665,000 to help it reopen...
...snatcher was last seen fleeing towards Thayer Hall with the pocketbook which contained "quite a good deal of money." Police believed the young thief to be the same bandit who committed a similar robbery Sunday night...
Winter's first snow seemed to have muffled summer's uneasy fears and forebodings (see BUSINESS). When Christmas shopping began last week on the day after Thanksgiving, the U.S. public demonstrated dramatically that it was still a game gang with a pocketbook...