Word: cash
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Smith to keep the peace in Little Rock, and Orval Faubus could only stand ready to cash in on failure. If rioters could break through Smith's police line, Faubus could again declare an emergency. Already on his desk as the schools opened were orders calling out state police and instructing the National Guard to lock the schools...
Renato Grassi was not the kind of traveler who heeds the advice of the American Express Co. to carry no more than $50 in cash. A slim, 36-year-old Italian with a weakness for tall brunettes, fast Lancias, and all-night stands at the roulette tables, Grassi liked to have as much as $250,000 worth of francs in his little black briefcase when he took off for weekends at French casinos. The trouble was, Grassi invariably lost-and the cash belonged to the American Express...
...turned his country into an invasion base. The proof came in Manhattan, when a group of disillusioned young Americans of Puerto Rican descent returned home after going to Cuba to participate in the recent invasion of the Dominican Republic. Propelled by dreams of glory, plus promises of hard cash by anti-Trujillo exiles, the young men, ranging in age from 17 to 29 and most of them unemployed, got tickets to Havana and what they thought to be a chance at high adventure. Said Pablo Vélez. 23, "We were going to make a lot of money and shoot...
...gold waiting at the finish line. His body high and forward, weight over the horse's withers, boots in two of the shortest stirrups in racing, he is a jockey in a hurry. He is strong enough to ride all afternoon, and he applies the measure of cold cash, not sentiment, to his work. Shrugs Jockey Bob Ussery (rhymes with fussery): "If I ride in the Kentucky Derby, I want a real shot at winning. Otherwise, I'd rather ride six mounts at Belmont...
TREASURY BORROWERS will seek $1.7 billion in new cash to complete financing for first quarter of fiscal 1960. Money will be raised through sales of Treasury and tax-anticipation bills because of improved market conditions...