Word: cash
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hollywood standards, Johnny Cash's $50,000 ranch house, the single Cadillac and the li'l old Ford Thunderbird are unspectacular. But by anybody's standards, the Cash household is unhinged...
...riot. A yellow parrot named Jethroe screeches, whistles and squawks "There's a girl" whenever Mamma glides past in skintight velvet pants. A hefty brother-in-law lounges around listening to a recording of rock 'n' roll music that he composes himself. Through it all, Johnny Cash, head of the household, relaxes in pointy Italian-leather loafers, and practices a fast draw with his Colt...
Even in Hollywood, though, somebody has to pay for the groceries, so last week Daddy Johnny Cash put away his .45, unlimbered his guitar, and hit the road to rustle up some cash. In Saskatoon, Duluth, Hawaii or Australia, wherever tall (6 ft. 1 in., 195 Ibs.) Johnny sounds off with his own "country" ballads in his deep, twanging baritone, the tour is sure to pay off. For these days the jukebox set is again on a crying jag: hangings, murders, deaths, burials and blighted loves are the subjects they want a man to sing about. And ever since Johnny...
...friends-billed as Johnny Cash and the Tennessee Two-were also working at church socials. Four years ago they got a singing tryout with Sun Records (the outfit that discovered Elvis Presley and Jerry Lee Lewis), and their first song was Johnny's Cry, Cry, Cry. And Johnny had it made...
...while managing to cut long-distance rates between New York and Los Angeles from $4 to $2.50, and on shorter calls in proportion. Much of that money has gone into $19 billion for plant investment and new equipment, on which A. T. & T. now stands to cash in with dramatic earnings gains...