Word: cash
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...divorce, at expensive Manhattan night spots. Then came the law. After she failed to appear at a hearing on an $8,673 tax bill, New York State agents arrested her, took custody of her jewels and costumes (worth an estimated $55,000) because Debtor Garland could not raise the cash for a $10,000 bond...
...know all their idiosyncrasies. "When players check, call or bet," says Yardley, "a man with a sensitive ear can detect a slight inflection of voice and read what it means." The earnest student scrutinized card sharps and suckers from Indiana to Chungking-and while he parted them from their cash, some of them came apart themselves. He was at Monty's Place in Worthington the morning a traveling salesman named Jake Moses sat in a "friendly" game and was bluffed out of ten trunks full of shoes. He watched Bones Alverson, a slow-witted farmer, bet his heavily mortgaged...
VETERANS' HOUSING will get boost as a result of presidential order supplementing housing bill. G.I.s will no longer have to make 2% down payment on VA mortgages, will have to pay only closing costs in cash. Other orders released $325 million from Fanny Mae funds to stimulate home building, reduced cash down payment for middle-priced FHA houses...
...farm-implement businesses, later used the plant as the base of a new machine-tool business. Racing cars were only the frosting on the cake to give the tools a famous name. By last year the combination was bringing in $3,000,000 annually. But along with the cash came trouble...
...machine-tool order to help speed Argentine industrialization. In turn, Adolfo enthusiastically allowed Peron three years to pay. A year later, when Peron was ousted, Argentina had paid only a fraction of its bill, all in wheat to the Italian government, which has yet to convert it into cash for Maserati. To top it off, Adolfo took on another $437,500 machine-tool order from the Spanish government-which has also failed to pay. Result: the Orsis owe subcontractors some...