Word: cash
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...started a heady building boom, but the new factories have never had enough raw materials, were not sensibly geared to national needs, and were too expensive to run. Exports have fallen ominously behind imports, capital has fled to safe foreign banks, and since the government is too short of cash to buy raw materials, businessmen regularly resort to the black market. Last week, becoming a full-fledged member of the Organization for European Economic Cooperation, Spain vowed to change all that...
...suspend payment of debts, it will get even tighter. Spain has agreed to remove controls on a long list of imports, will set acceptable "global quotas" on others. The government has also ordered a six-month amnesty on the return of all fugitive capital in the hope of rebuilding cash reserves...
...awful conditions have steadily deteriorated since the fall of 1949, when Guido and a boyhood pal named Johnny Noga scraped up $10,000 to go to a sheriff's sale and buy a bankrupt nightclub. Guido deployed his wife Eleanor at the cash register, Johnny married Helen, the head waitress, and they began to book some musical acts. Along with Brubeck and Mulligan, jazz stars as well as pop singers drifted into the Hawk-Chet Baker, Miles Davis, Erroll Garner, Dorothy Dandridge, Johnny Mathis. Regulars remember how Eleanor Caccienti refused to ring the cash register when Dizzy Gillespie...
This week Guide's noiseless cash registers are ringing up drinks and entrance fees to a brisk rhythm, the music of Vibraphonist Cal Tjader and his jazz quartet (quickly convertible to a bongo-congo Latin quintet with the addition of a crack drummer named "Mongo"). Says Owner Guido: "We give the customers good jazz. The musicians we don't bother. We never walked around with big cigars and said, 'I'm Mister Black Hawk and won't you sit at my table, musician?' They can look right across the room when they play...
...Rails 1958 1959 Pennsylvania Railroad loss $ .48 New York Central Railroad loss 1.56 Miscellaneous RCA $ .86 1.29 B.F. Goodrich 1.60 2.18 Kennecott Copper 2.07 4.32 Libbey-Owens-Ford .57 3.16 Pepsi-Cola .85 .97 American Machine & Foundry 1.38 2.27 Texaco 2.37 2.79 National Distillers .88 1.05 National Cash Register .96 1.07 Phillips Petroleum...