For amounts over a dollar, an American will generally either drop denominations or give both dollars and cents, as in "two-twenty" or "two dollars and twenty cents" for $2.20. An American would not say "two dollars twenty." On the other hand, in BrE, "two pounds twenty" would be ...
The U.S. paid 60 million francs(法郎) ($11,250,000) plus cancellation of debts worth 18 million francs ($3,750,000), for a total sum of 15 million dollars for the Louisiana territory ($219 million in 2010 dollars). The Louisiana Purchase encompassed all or part of 15 current U.S....
AMERICAN EXPORTSTHE COMPLETE GUIDE TO: Great American Exports ; the US Exports Billions of Dollars Worth of Goods to the UK Every Year. but in Cultural Terms the Country Has an Unquantifiable Influence on Our Lives, from Microsoft and McDonald's to Ernest Hemingway and Aretha Franklin. by ...
1990: Washington uses tax dollars to launch TV Marti, to broadcast anti-Castro messages to Cuba. It is jammed in Cuba. June. The Cuban Museum of Arts and Culture in Miami is bombed by anti-Cuban terrorist for exhibiting work by artists living in Cuba. Orlando Bosch, convicted international...
it’s possible a network wouldn’t take the chance and decide not to televise the game. That could result in millions of dollars in lost revenue for the network and its sponsors. If Washington should make it to the annual Super Bowl, that could create a financial calamity. Earlier this ye...
WITH FINANCE CAPITAL replacing production output as the economic power in America, Wall Street Jews are investing trillions of dollars into overseas manufacturing rather than bolstering a supply-side economy with its attendant job opportunities at home....
Pat Robberperson, aka Pat Robertson took $2 billion dollars from the English Crown to mislead Christians into the Judeo-Masonic gospel. $ 2 billion dollars and only the English press covered it. The English Crown is not giving Brother Nathanael Kapner 2 billion to preach the Gospel are they?
Originally the term was applied to Taft administration (1909-13) policy when a well-intentioned President wanted to "substitute dollars for bullets" in financially irresponsible Latin American nations. As time passed, the debtor states remained chaotic and increasing U.S. pressure was applied, aliena...
The state legislature conscripted soldiers and appropriated several million dollars for military operations and for the support of the families of soldiers. Some 35,000 of the 122,000 Alabamians who served in the war died. Following the collapse of the Confederacy and the refusal of the state ...
In June 1990 AIG agreed to buy Fischbach Corporation for $43 million. Fischbach, a Florida-based contractor, was an AIG performance-bond customer that had begun to experience financial difficulties. If Fischbach had failed, AIG could have been forced to pay hundreds of millions of dollars to co...