Word: cash
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communist trade offensive has not discouraged West Germany's own drive to the East. Partly because of the poor quality of 30 locomotives which Nasser bought from Communist Hungary two years ago, partly by agreeing to accept some of the price in cotton instead of cash, West Germany's Henschel Works fortnight ago snatched an Egyptian State Railways order for 108 diesel-electric locomotives away from both Russian and U.S. bidders. And in the Ruhr several major industrial firms are mulling over plans for a "Mideast pool" which would merge their commercial influence and intelligence services...
...Japan's Koreans had signed a petition saying they wanted to go to Communist North Korea. Though Japanese police believe that only 43,000 actually signed their names (and most of these signatures were bought by the league at $15 apiece from Koreans who needed the cash), Japanese Foreign Minister Aiichiro Fujiyama seized upon the idea...
...confusion, the Cabinet did its best to get a few things done. It drew up a plan to replace Batista's corrupt lottery with a lottery-bond program designed to help finance a $100 million housing project.* Last week, an accounting of the Cuban treasury's cash reserves was finally completed. Discovery: in five years. Dictator Batista squandered $423 million, leaving the country with only $110,710,947, or some $60 million less than the legal minimum. To rebuild the reserves, a system of import licenses was clamped on a long list of goods-with the promise...
...lucky $25 bond holder can win as much as $100,000 if his number comes up. If not he can cash it in on a graduated scale: from 50% of its face value after one year to 110% after...
...project, announced last week, is the joint venture of the U.S. Government, big business and private philanthropy. The Navy will donate the Consolation,* American President Lines will operate her at cost, and the People-to-People Health Foundation will raise the cash (estimated annual bill: $3,500,000), sign on a permanent staff (some 15 doctors, 20 nurses), and a rotating staff of 35 doctors taken largely from U.S. medical schools. Called HOPE ("health opportunity for people everywhere"), the project is already swamped with applications from doctors bidding for the slots that range from dermatology to psychiatry...