Word: doubledealing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
The compulsory loan, said the government, would 1) raise an extra $25 million for capital improvements, 2) reduce the inflationary pressure which has doubled and trebled some prices since February, 3) expose the black-marketeers and currency speculators who hold much of Israel's large-denomination banknotes. The Israeli...
More Traffic, Less Money. The turnpikes are the newest answer to highway congestion. The U.S., the most mobile and mechanized nation in the world, is wearing its roads out faster than it builds new ones. At the same time, the amount of its passenger and freight highway traffic keeps growing...
Armed East Indiamen, huge square-sails set to the trade winds, brought British merchants to China in the 18th century. Ashore, the traders were treated to fireworks and feasting by hong merchants, who alone among Chinese were permitted to deal with foreigners. But opposition to the old East India Co...
Even in the big growing centers, potatoes were scarce. In Elizabeth City, N.C., the chamber of commerce worried lest its annual potato festival, scheduled for this week, be spudless. In Baldwin County, Ala., so many trucks were lined up to grab up the first of the spring crop that the...
The great oil boom has also churned up a parallel treasure hunt in the nation's securities markets. For investors, oil's lure is threefold: 1) as wealth in the ground, where its value is likely to keep abreast of inflation, 2) as the raw material of the...