Word: bankes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...comedian who makes more than $100,000 a year might not be happy, but I am willing to bet he is laughing all the way to the bank...
...Roberts sued. In December 1976 a federal jury decided that Sears had obtained Roberts' patent fraudulently. The jury awarded him $1 million. Last week, after Sears had fought the decision all the way to the Supreme Court and lost, Roberts, now a 33-year-old grocer in Red Bank, Tenn., collected his money. What will he do with it? "I'll do some more tinkering," he says. "I think I have some more good ideas...
...Franklin McNulty, who was living on welfare in Oakland, Calif., won $128,410 in the Irish Sweepstakes. When he discovered that the Government expected to be paid about $35,000 in taxes on his winnings, he deposited his windfall in a bank on the island of Jersey in the English Channel. McNulty figured that money not brought into the U.S. could not be taxed...
...because of additional penalties-and Judge Alfonso J. Zirpoli has ordered McNulty to stay in jail until he complies. Says McNulty: "I've held out for almost four years, and I'll hold out until I see justice and freedom served." Not to mention his bank account...
...Bund, the magnificent old waterfront promenade, is decaying, but is as imposing as ever in the pre-smog morning light. The ornate colonialist skyscrapers now house party and government offices. Gone from hi front of the old Hongkong & Shanghai Bank are the bronze Britannic lions. Another old bank has been transformed into an absorbing museum of ancient art. The Peace Hotel, built as the Cathay by Sir Victor Sassoon hi the mid-1930s and now the premier hostelry for Western visitors, is creaky and listless, but it can still mount a banquet worthy of an Emperor. At a school...