Word: cash
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cash & Concessions. While this normal fretwork of the politicians went on, the general himself calmly busied himself with the here and now. To supply the government with ready cash, and to sop up excess purchasing power, wispy Fi put on sale 3.5% tax-free government bonds, which as a hedge against inflation will be pegged to the market value of the gold napoleon (last week 3.600 francs). While De Gaulle appealed to patriotism in launching the loan. Pinay remembered the practical side. In the hope of attracting urgently needed foreign exchange, Pinay was even prepared to let Frenchmen...
...villa above the town, he is working on a new opera scheduled for production at Brussels which he hopes will give him the cash to "pay my personal bills." But his real concern is that the festival will succeed enough to be repeated. If that happens, Spoleto will become what he intended it to be: a kind of artistic Shangri-La, where young U.S. and European artists can retire every year to talk shop and "express themselves freely, unhampered by political creeds or esthetic fashions...
Last week she likened the Government's latest sale of bonds to a "gigantic sale of I.O.U.s," ticked off future bond issues planned for the next few months, and concluded: "It means that the greatest wave of cash borrowing by our Treasury since the Korean war and the greatest wave of borrowing ever in peacetime is about to sweep our land ... It means that the easy money era which was kicked off this past November will keep running through this period. All borrowers-including you -will be benefited by this...
Hume gave Communism a whirl, masqueraded as an R.A.F. officer ("It was a great thrill to have everyone saluting a bastard like me"), got married. Then he met Setty. "He had a voice like broken bottles and pockets stuffed with cash." When he heard reports that Setty was hanging around his wife, Hume suddenly felt a twinge of jealousy, grabbed a dagger and-"continued next week...
Begun on a shoestring in 1954, KQED was at first limited by lack of cash to a 30-minute program three nights a week. General Manager Jim Day, 39, credits the station's subsequent rise to the do-it-yourself teamwork of the original six-man staff. By 1955, with the helo of a $114,000 grant from the Ford Foundation, KQED was running regular lectures, panel discussions, art shows and live symphonic concerts, kept growing even after the Ford grant...