Word: rates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...since last January had the Army signed up the 30,000 recruits it needs each month. Last week, cleaning out its separation pipeline and with enlistments dribbling in at the rate of only 12,000 a month, the Army bumped down to its authorized peacetime strength of 1,070,000-six weeks ahead of schedule...
...Russians could make the atom bomb. . . . I gather it takes more than a cyclotron, some chemists, and a boy to run out for coffee. I don't think the Soviets have what it takes. . . . How come they haven't been able to turn out a first-rate automobile? There are no top secrets in a Chevvy. . . . I'll tell you why. To make machines work . . . it takes a bunch of kids who worship the pliers and the screwdriver rather than the hammer & sickle. And that's us-not them. . . . Don't go telling me they...
Drama. Eugene O'Neill's first play in twelve years, The Iceman Cometh, was second-rate O'Neill, but even so, added stature to the season. So did Another Part of the Forest, without being entirely first-rate Lillian Hellman. Meanwhile, a virtually unknown playwright, Arthur Miller, won the Drama Critics' award, with All My Sons...
From then on in Paris, everyone from cab drivers to nightclub operators exchanged dollars at the black-market rate. He found Parisian food mostly good, cheap in second-class restaurants in terms of the black-market exchange. Sample supper menu: vegetable soup (watery); green salad (wonderful); cheese omelet (out of this world); white wine, small coffee, patisserie. Cost for two: $2.50. The hotel bill for four days was 3,003 francs ($13 black market...
Along the French Riviera, most of the war damage was repaired. The famed. white Negresco hotel in Nice was open, A meal with wine at Cagnes-sur-Mer cost 60?. All told, in eleven days in France, he exchanged only $52 at the official rate...