Word: rockbottom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...Rockbottom budged last week. Foreign Minister Molotov's note to Washington on Korea broke a long deadlock that had made the 38th parallel across Korea the most opaque of all the curtains between the Russian sphere and the rest of the world. It also meant that the world's 13th largest nation could move a step toward the independence it had not known for 40 years and toward the democracy it had never known...