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...I could not previously recollect with certainty. ―Instead of some thousand dollars, I was now compelled to be contented with about twenty! ...

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...olumn required all of my scheming. While I struggled to pay that thousand dollars I resolved to lay aside something as a cushion, but it was many ye... ... The Library As far back as I can remember I have always watched over my dollars. In Springfield I knew what each month’s expenses amounted to. Dur... ...ade—from Kentucky. I must give away that telltale hat. It cost me eight dollars. Certainly, Mary must never find it; that would mean severe hyster... ...ng paper. How do I obtain accurate information? I learn that two million dollars have disappeared from our national treasury. I learn that General ...

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...Dollars and nonCents examines American monetary history, showing how paper currencies were deceptively made a legal tender (alongside gold and silver coin) in 1862 and cleverly upheld by the courts who were not exactly forthr...

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...o [flights] which involved weapons and cocaine at the same time," he told the court. Carrasco also testified that Morales provided "several million dollars" to Octaviano Cesar and Adolfo "Popo" Chamorro, two rebel leaders working with the head of the contras' southern front, Eden Pastora. The Washington Post reported that Chamorro said he had called his CIA control offic...

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...inage Mintage Statistics 1793-1902 51 Silver Coinage Mint Mintage Statistics 1793-1902 (odd denominations) 54 Gold Coinage Statistics 1793-1902 (in dollars) 57 Appendix C: Reports 60 Superintendent Robert Morris’ 1782 Report 61 PROPOSITIONS RESPECTING THE COINAGE OF GOLD, SILVER, AND COPPER. 66 Samuel Osgood and Walter Livingston’s April 8, 1786 Report 69 April 8, ...

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...s and killed 60 people. Chile, 1960 Property damage: Pegged at millions of US dollars. Casualties: 5700 killed and 3000 injured. Side eff... ...the United Kingdom, and 1,23 in continental Europe. Thus $14,100 is 14 thousand US dollars in the United States - but only 14 dollars and ten cents... ...ts on 41,492 concrete piles. The purchase of land cost $2.25 million (in 1943 dollars). The building itself cost c. $50 million, or $83 millio... ...oof of another building nearby. The damage was estimated at $1 million (that's 1945 dollars). It took 3 months to repair the 78th and 79th floors. ... ...ging. Criminals like Al Capone (see our First Book of Factoids) made 60 million US dollars a year in the 1920s. In 1933, Utah was the 36th state to...

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...y hand flutteringly. “Hitler is known to have paid close to a quarter million US dollars to his nephew, a certain William Patrick. It was not out...

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...ot just a dead end but as a low-paying dead end. I was making eighty-five dollars per week, which Saks thought was a good salary. I thought it neede... ...for doing a good job. Then Maria became pregnant again and my eighty-five dollars needed support. I asked for an increase of ten dollars more per we... ...rchased a majority interest in (Nameless) Amos for the sum of one million dollars. This was petty cash to them, but it 63 64 • Man with No Name s... ...ut the company did not thrive. In the latter part of 1987 and six million dollars later, The Sage Group sold the assets of the corporation to the Jo... ...any recovered. When Portola acquired the business, sales were six million dollars per year. They built it up to over $80 million. Portola capitaliz... ...shing an adult friendship with me; his sole interest was in getting a few dollars from me whenever I vis­ ited, not only because he was abusing, but ... ...Sky But I Missed, So I Grabbed a Few Stars • 87 an astounding six-billion-dollar bill for welfare and unemploy­ ment compensation. Illiteracy is a pr... ...awaii. United Way is a fund-raiSing council which distributes millions of dollars to sixty-five social service and non-profit agen­ cies in our commu... ...rred to me their concern was quite a compliment. Here was a multi-million dollar company fearful of penniless me. But I also thought, "Wow! If I ca...

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...you for openin’ up, Doc. Like I said, I can pay you anything you want.” “Two dollars will cover it. Truth is I didn’t want to close up today, anywa... ...th I didn’t have much time to think about anything else.” I gave him the two dollars and he put it right into his pocket. As he headed toward his... ...e will come from all over to buy. Stud rights alone could bring thousands of dollars into the Circle of Fire. Once our name is out there, in front ... ...at while Clint was missin’ the mornin’ of the race, he’d put down a thousand dollars on Whisper! The odds were twenty to one, so Clint walked away ...

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...dn’t know exactly where I was going, but with the two-hundred and twenty- two dollars I’d saved, and what was now one of the fastest horses in the t... ...lebags were filled with ill-gotten merchandise consisting of near forty-five dollars in cash, a handful of gold coins, a set of silver plate tablew...

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...eat Corruptions That Are Destroying America The Corruption of Politics 1 The Corruption of Debt 7 The Corruption of Currency 13 The Mutiny on the Dollar 18 The Future of America 22 Part II The Three Assets You Do Not Have to Report to the U.S. Government How to Prepare for the Biggest Government Encroachment in U.S. History 25 Three Tips to Keep Your Wealth Ou...

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... few. Today, the common person can buy a desktop-terabyte drive for fifty dollars and a pocket-terabyte drive for a hundred dollars— drives that can ... ...symbols, but we readily recognize logograms such as the ampersand and the dollar sign.) In Chinese, some characters represent same-sounding syllable... ...irst-century projects include the Genghis Khan Airport and a five-million-dollar statue of him and his sons. When Genghis Khan died in 1227:  Hi... ...fitable business with unlimited credit, boasted a capital of five million dollars when Mills resigned as its president and returned East in 1873. J... ...o closed its doors with millions in liabilities and only hundred thousand dollars in its vaults. The man who succeeded Mills as bank president had f... ...tic call to return to the bank. He joined others in raising eight million dollars, reopened the bank, and served as president without pay. Just thre... ... grew his own personal investments to an estimated fifty to sixty million dollars in an era when single-digit millionaires were still a rarity. In ... ...uarter. Just twenty-five cents! Since then we have seen billions of dollars of media coverage about an ever- increasing price of gasoline. But ... ...trillion eBooks given away by an organization that never has had a million dollars total over its forty year history … all done by Michael Hart and h...

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...eeds to be set up to meticulously analyze traffic congestion, since our tax dollars are being wasted anyway, and it might as well go towards solving... ... place better than at a club, where drinks at Club Mode are at least twenty dollars a shot. Plus, this goes back to my whole theory on Asiatown, lik... ... he's ever seen and flat out asks, "Would you sleep with me for one million dollars?" She looks at him for a moment and answers, "Nothing after that... ...nswers, "Nothing after that? Just one night of sex with you for one million dollars? Hell yes I will!" The man then asks her, "Okay, how about for tw... ...ollars? Hell yes I will!" The man then asks her, "Okay, how about for twenty dollars in the back room over there?" The girl is completely in shock. "...

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... conceding, that land adjoining my alder swamp was sold last month for ten dollars an acre, and thought a rash purchase at that; so that for wide hous... ...ly now with a view to a pecuniary estimate. “I will do it for five hundred dollars,” said Mr. Scribe at last, again hat in hand. “Very well, Mr. Scrib... ...y was found to consist but of the house and grounds, and some ten thousand dollars in stocks; but the place, being found heavily mortgaged, was in con... ...his pretended disinterestedness, was not opposed to pocketing five hundred dollars by the operation, seemed equally evident. That my wife had, in se- ... ... visits to the chimney. With a business man, time is money. Here are fifty dollars, Mr. Scribe. Nay, take it. You have earned it. Your opinion is wort...

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...him burial of his men Till he disbursed at Saint Colme’s inch Ten thousand dollars to our general use. DUNCAN: No more that thane of Cawdor shall dec...

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...d easy-to-follow language. Our India correspondent Choodi Shivaram bravely takes us into the controversial Kerala temple where tens of billions of dollars worth of jewels and offerings, hidden from view for decades, were recently discovered locked in two dark chambers below the Padmanabhaswamy Temple. The discovery makes it the richest Hindu temple in the world, and tha...

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...om. Slen Kuskitt has become a drug lord. He has temporarily abandoned a 42-foot ketch. In it he has hidden a dead body and drugs worth four million dollars. The boat gathers barnacles and moss. Pete buys it at sheriff's auction and reclaims it. Friends trick him into naming it Sexy Lady. Nothing will stop Kuskitt from recovering his hoard and sinking Pete. Ignorant ...