Word: cash
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...delegation escorted him to a flag-draped automobile, sped him to the hospital to receive the thanks of the recuperating stevedore, then took him back to his ship. There they gave him a gold medal; a twelve-inch gold filigree model of the windjammer Saldanha da Gama, $25 in cash and an offer of a life job long shore...
...spirit he leaves nothing undone to accomplish his purpose. ... In my opinion under the present setup, no body can effectively regulate such an organization. It is too big, too powerful, its officials are too fast and its lawyers too smart. ... I have seen them juggle their books, juggle their cash, juggle foreclosure sales where they were both buyer and seller, juggle their taxes, juggle their lawyers, their accountants and their engineers...
...will was Mrs. Margaret Strong de Cuevas, daughter of his eldest daughter Bessie, who died before Rockefeller divided his wealth among his children. Heroically singleminded, he showed no attachment to the things money can buy. He sold his New Jersey and Florida estates to his son for good cash prices, retained only $179,971 worth of miscellaneous property. Samples: $150 worth of lawn furniture, a $45 gold watch, a dozen cocktail glasses ($6), a dozen champagne tumblers ($30), an incomplete set of china ($600). In 97 years Rockefeller accumulated very little to which his heirs assigned no value. But they...
...members' houses, they discussed sex, atheism and a program they distilled from Plato, Aristotle and Edward Bellamy's Utopia. Specific points in their program: less restrictive marriage laws, more sex education, a plan (a kind of first cousin to "Thirty Dollars Every Thursday") to give everybody cash certificates to be spent within a year. The group also had rifle-shooting practice to develop members' "individual qualities and reliance...
Fitting themselves into this jigsaw puzzle of conflicting theories has led the sponsors of profit-sharing into dozens of applications: cash bonus plans, stock purchase plans, semi-retirement plans, etc. Procter & Gamble's is the best known in the U. S., with 50 years of success behind it. Its employes kitty in 5% of their wages. The company matches this with a contribution of 5% of the worker's wage for the first two years, increases this to a maximum of 15% by the time the worker has served 15 years. The fund is used to purchase stock...