Word: yen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tokyo the rich were madly spending to avoid tomorrow's tax, and the poor were madly striking to pay tomorrow's bills. No one knew what tomorrow's yen might be worth...
...Suffer the Children." I visited three Kalgan factories with a serene revolutionary, Professor Lin Tse-ming, onetime biologist at Peiping's U.S.-sponsored Yen-ching University and now Director of Studies at North China Union University. They were clean and running smoothly...
...conference was discussing how to get 240,000 tons of northern coal and 1,000 tons of northern steel shipped down in exchange for the south's surplus rice; how to unify Korea's two currencies (Russian occupation rubles in the north, Japanese-issued Bank of Chosen yen in the south); how to form a provisional government from the right and left factions which had grown out of Korea's go-odd political parties...
...Grand Yen. In Los Angeles, a returned G.I. reported that in Japan an American could buy a wife for 1,000 yen...
...tough melodrama in his new thriller. There is the sneering, dame-slapping heel of a hero (Dan Duryea), the bad girl (Joan Bennett) who asks to be slapped around and seems to enjoy it, and the frightened, henpecked little middle-aged cashier (Edward G. Robinson) with a simple-minded yen for the girl. Everyone in the picture misbehaves and everyone comes to a bad end. Even so, studio publicists made the most of a decision by New York censors that the film is "indecent, immoral . . . and tending to corrupt morals...