Word: yen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Seversky, sold transport planes for him in Europe and Asia. They hawked Captain Melvin Maynard Johnson's famed semi-automatic rifle, finally landed him a big Dutch order. Through Seversky they hooked up in 1938 with Felix William Zelcer, a Polish-born ex-speakeasy operator with a yen for aviation...
...China as the Central Powers were strangled in the World War. This is correct, but isn't there a possibility of alleviating this disastrous situation by a strong economic attack on the Jap strangler? The Chinese dollar has depreciated badly, and is partially dominated by the Japanese military yen in areas near the zones of occupation. Thus the perimeter of the flow of trade is from national China towards occupied China. By importing gold bullion from the U.S.'s oversupply and buying in occupied areas with gold, the flow can be reversed. The consumers goods . . . necessary to stiffen...
...plenty of the blame rests squarely on U.S. meat buyers. With more free cash than ever before and a shortage-sharpened yen for meat, U.S. citizens pay without complaint far over ceiling prices. Los Angeles aircraft workers pay $1.95 a Ib. for steak, then display their prize like a Prohibition college boy showing off his flask; Manhattan housewives happily fork over 80? a Ib. for beef liver...
...heard of it, it was patent good news. After one year of occupation, the Jap had seized almost everything of value: railroads, utilities, industrial plants, mines, rice and sugar plantations. Some were taken outright; others were acquired by a show of legality, by stock purchases paid for with paper yen. Craftily the Jap had laid plans to hold economic control of the islands, even though he should lose...
Barnes, the South Philadelphia boy who invented Argyrol, made millions, and settled down to insult Philadelphia society and accumulate paintings, sometimes gets a yen for a philosopher. His favorite, and frequent drinking companion, is John Dewey. In 1940, blaming the C.C.N.Y. furor on "bigoted authoritarians," Barnes hired Bertrand Russell for the Barnes Foundation, an art school connected with the gallery...