Word: cash
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that some Cambridge politicians have not yet exhausted their wit in discovering new ways of profiting from the city's drive for improvement. In the cause of "progressive industrialization," certain well-situated individuals appear to be seeking to palm off worthless land as valuable, realizing a handsome bit of cash in the process...
...local businessmen. They appealed to the State Tax Commission to show the proper Las Vegas spirit and give the hotel one more chance to get even. From the sympathetic commission came approval of an unprecedented experiment: an eight-day trial to see if the Royal Nevada could separate enough cash from Christmas season gamblers by the end of the year to pay its bills...
...bankroll the Royal Nevada again, Richardson got $150,000 from Joe W. Brown, oil-rich Texan owner of the local Horseshoe Club, and the hotel started gambling. As 1958 rolled in, Manager Maurice Friedman happily said that cash flowing across the tables had reached $211,711.35. As for precise winnings, Friedman was Vegas-vague, but Bankroller Brown had his money back, and the creditors were satisfied enough not to foreclose...
Proving, as usual, that quality does not necessarily jingle cash registers, Motion Picture Herald posted the results of its poll of some 10,000 U.S. and Canadian theater owners. Their selection of the top ten box-office pullers featured male dreamboats of all ages, indicated that teen-agers are calling the moviegoing public's tune, with nary a cinemactress in the top ten for the first time since the Herald started its balloting 26 years ago. Scratched in the past year: Marilyn Monroe and Kim Novak. The new all-male marquee names hailed as dollar signs by exhibitors...
...cauldron, no one supplies more fire, or more newt's eyes, than twelve eccentric old ladies who meet every so often to nibble lunch, bite backs and, once every year, pass out one of France's top literary awards, the Prix Femina. Although the Femina's cash value is only 5,000 francs ($12), the prize has enough prestige to guarantee a 100,000-copy sale to the novelist who lands it. To literary onlookers, the Femina's entertainment value is even greater; although the prize was created (in 1904) to bring literary women closer together...