Word: dollar
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Newport News went Mrs. Hoover to break a champagne bottle of water collected from the seven seas over the prow of a new Dollar liner, to declare: "I name thee President Hoover." Herbert Hoover III in the launching stand, shouted with excited glee, gave his grandmother's arm an impulsive shove. Declared R. Stanley Dollar: "Such is our answer to the rumor of a business depression...
...honestly believe," he said, "that it is far easier to conceal the application of a dollar than the existence of a rifle...
Banker-Charitarian Case last week was preoccupied by the failure of Bank of United States, one of four components of a proposed billion-dollar bank which he had consented to head (see p. 29). But the Community Chest work throughout the land to which he had given his prestige and advice, was for the most part completed for the year. Thanks to Banker Case, William Cooper (Ivory Soap) Proctor and men like them, 360 community chests were flooding national headquarters with glad reports of some $80,000,000 collected...
Eventually Mr. Mitchell was admitted. The gathering he saw was probably as great in dollar-power as any similar meeting ever held. Perhaps Mr. Mitchell recalled the momentous meeting in 1907, the year he arrived from Chicago to start his Manhattan banking career...
...interesting feature of the book market in Harvard Square is the apparent lack of activity in the dollar new fiction field. Although sales of cheap reprint editions continue to run high, the demand for novels is confined almost entirely to those which are in the two dollar and two-fifty class. In other words the announcement made last spring by certain publishers cutting their fiction, prices in half has had little effect on Cambridge buyers...