Word: yen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shortly afterward he had the expected satisfaction of learning that his Cabinet had approved a special military budget of 2,824,470,000 yen...
...agreement to stabilize the yen with the dollar...
This tough talk was underlined by the House of Representatives' approval of a 3,800,000,000 yen ($874,000,000) extraordinary military budget. Thus Japan's Tojo, Togo and Diet had thrust the Empire into a warlike posture which, if it were to be abandoned for any reason, would require a fearful loss of face and alibis which would have to be masterpieces of Japanese verbalism. The Japanese were still fooling themselves into believing that the U.S. could be made to back down...
...separated by the order recalling all Navy wives from the Far East-an order that Navy men resent more every day-Mrs. Hart has been busy raising cows in Sharon, Conn., on a farm that has been in her family for generations. Like most sailors, the Admiral has a yen for farming, would like to put his wife's dairy on a "businesslike basis." When they were first separated, Mrs. Hart wrote to Tommy that she was lonely. Cheerfully he replied: "If you weren't so darn healthy, you wouldn't be lonely...
...military upsurge, Japan's character among world states had radically changed. From a great world-trading power, it had become a heavily embargoed, declining economy. Its foreign trade had dropped at least a quarter in value since 1937. Its national debt had risen from 11,018,700,000 yen in 1937 to 30,895,000,000 yen. (Against estimated Government expenditures for the current fiscal year of more than 20,000,000.000 yen, revenues are estimated at 5,220,000,000.) And Japan's best friend, Adolf Hitler, was not only far away, but kept urging Japan...