Word: token
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fixed price (probably 4.85 to the dollar); the Bank of Mexico will stand ready to buy them back, thus pegging the peso at its present level. About $30,000,000 is reportedly involved in this deal. From this money the Mexican Government would expect to make a token payment to U.S. oil companies...
...rumored that wily German Ambassador Franz von Papen (see p. 102) had tried to save his own foxy countenance by requesting a token shipment of 2,500 tons of chrome at once. But this contract, with its never-never quality, was the best that Germany could...
Cordell Hull: Mexico would make a $9,000,000 ''token payment" (made possible by U.S. loans and credits of much more than that) to the oil companies. The money would be placed in escrow pending valuation of the properties by two experts-one from Mexico, one from...
...half through the Treasury, half through the Export-Import Bank. Export-Import's $30,000,000 will be used for building roads, developing Mexican agriculture, etc. Treasury's $30,000,000 will be used to stabilize the peso. From this fund will come a $9,000,000 "token payment" to U.S. oil companies while negotiations for a final settlement are in progress...
...word is still 'defense.' In the mouth of a fainthearted army officer-there are many-it sounds natural enough; only when you hear it from men whose actions stamp them as dedicated to all-out effort does it strike you as odd and sad that this token word has taken root everywhere. . . . This arsenal of democracy, this strongest of all industrial nations, continues to view with shuddering abhorrence the world of conflict in which it finds itself. Confronted with the bloodlust of Hitler's Germany, it still wishes it could continue to dream about colored bathtubs. . . ." Stultified...