Word: cash
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most powerful men in Indo-China, the undisputed lord of every profitable vice in the land, the czar of the police force, which he bought cash-down from Bao Dai for $1,000,000, he became a close crony of France's puppet Emperor. Between them, Le Van Vien and Bao Dai, who preferred the seclusion of the French Riviera to his own embattled empire, split a daily take of some $25,000 from Cholon's infamous bordello and gambling casino Le Grand Monde, the most spectacularly profitable hot spot in the East...
...fattened it from such civic windfalls as the $647,000 plum gained from a favorable turn of the exchange rate on borrowed U.S. dollars. By the time Hawrelak persuaded his fellow citizens to forgo other desperately needed civic improvements to start the city hall, he had the cash in sight...
...selling off the property of a Penn-Texas subsidiary, Colt's Patent Firearms of Hartford, Conn., Silberstein raised $2,000,000 in cash, then leased back the plant at $231,264 a year for 20 years-or a total...
Boylston Prizes were founded in 1817 "for the delivery of memorized selections from English, Greek, or Latin literature," in honor of Nicolaus Boylston. The competition provides five cash awards to undergraduates in good standing who reach the finals, with two top prizes of $35 each...
Meanwhile, Senate rackets investigation rolled out a mass of evidence that Frank W. Brewster, a top Teamster Union official, applied cash from the union till to a home, racing stable, and costly tailor-made suits. There was evidence, too, that Brewster doubled up on expense accounts...