Word: yen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...islands. Last week Joe was guest of honor at a rally of 2,000 fans in Urawa, 15 miles northwest of Tokyo. Like his other fans, the Urawa club members buy quantities of the English textbooks which give Joe an annual royalty of almost 5½ million yen ($15,000), plus his yearly salary of 130,000 yen. Of his four-year-old program, Joe says modestly: "I just wanted to do something for my country, and realized this...
...Another Hollywoodsman with a yen for politics, Edward Arnold, portentous statesman of the movies and radio, who a fortnight ago filed for Senator on the Republican side, last week reconsidered and withdrew...
...freight cars full of fresh snow out of chilly northern Niigata and, as shown here, heaped it atop a huge ski jump in balmy Tokyo's Korakuen stadium. The Transportation Ministry and a local newspaper, which sponsored the meet and paid for the snow, lost only 959,950 yen ($2,667) on the event...
...made up of solid masses of pure color, often applied with big brushes which he wields like two-handed swords. "My heart sinks," confessed his father last week, "to see the boy take a whole tube of color and squeeze it on to canvas. They cost at least 300 yen. But he knows how to get proper effects...