Word: yen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...good chunk of its outsized circulation comes from city folk with a nostalgia or a yen for rural life. In this atomic year, The Old Farmer's Almanac's straw-colored covers looked more reassuring than ever...
...called back for a penalty. Twice more he threw and connected, once to End Ralph, but both plays were nullified. So Junior just up and ran 50 yards for a touchdown. Capping his thunderous high-school career by scoring 236 points his senior year, he had a mild yen for nearby University of Southern California. When West Point beckoned, he said no-unless brother Ralph could come along too. Yes, he could...
...publicized peace talks were going on in Chungking, saw plenty of fighting between the Nationalists and Communists. The Communists made bitter and partly successful efforts to seize North China and wreck the Nationalist chance of successful occupation. A fortnight ago in northwest Shansi, bailiwick of aging "Model Governor" Marshal Yen Hsi-shan, a Communist concentration ambushed 10,000 of Marshal Yen's troops, and killed several thousand of them before they could be extricated. Hundreds of miles farther north, many a day's march beyond the scene of Marshal Yen's trouble, in Suiyuan Province, a large...
Trade Silk for Food? It seems to have little to give in exchange. So far, the U.S. Army's economic and science section, which will handle reparations, has turned up only 46,000 bales of silk, 2,500 tons of tea and 25,000,000 yen worth of medicine. There may be some other equally small change. But the Jap cupboard is bare...
...bumper rice crop is coming up - the only bright spot I see in the coming winter of privation. The dipsy-doodle price of rice shows how values have changed. It shot to 280 yen per bushel in the Japs' latter days. At the end, hoarded stocks were dumped. The price fell to 28 yen (briefly) and by now is back to 100 to 120 yen on the black market. The Army has set a military exchange rate of 15 yen to the dollar. But 25 or 30 would be more realistic...