Word: price
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Oklahoma City Times, which had fought Alfalfa Bill bitterly when he was governor, got together with some of the capital's citizens. The Squirrel Rifles was mobilized again. It was a joke, but once again a joke with a point. Commissions in the brigade were offered for a price: $10 for colonelcy, $5 for a majority. Over $1,000 had been collected by this week...
...Righteousness. In World War I he was an Army chaplain at Camp Upton, and long before World War II he became an interventionist. Condemning the "sentimental pacifism" of some of his colleagues, he said in 1938: "I am not for peace at any price, but rather for righteousness at any cost...
...free" markets of the world, the British pound, which was devalued to $2.80 last September, was being unofficially devalued still further. The pound was selling for $2.47 in New York City, was off 6% from its pegged price in Paris, 11% in Brussels...
...Warned the Wall Street Journal: "The pound is still a hobbled currency . . . The man who holds a pound sterling, with its limited usefulness, still wants to swap it for U.S. dollars or other money that is spendable anywhere any time . . . Under such circumstances, there is no 'rockbottom' price [for the pound...
Dealers generally get their books at 40 per cent below list price, though specialized text books carry only a 25 per cent discount...