Word: cash
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...after five struggling years in the Texas dust bowl, Roberts sold his runty cattle, his house and farm equipment, bought a 1929 Chevy on credit, and with $75 in his jeans, started out for California. In Yuma, Ariz, he joined other stranded Okies who had run out of cash, cadged a job pitching hay at $2.70 a day. In return for milking his landlord's cows every morning, Roberts got a rent-free two-room shack for eight months...
Even better, cash registers kept on jingling merrily after Christmas. "Our post-Christmas season started off with a bang," said Rich's department store in Atlanta, which broke all holiday sales records. Reported Dallas A. Harris & Co.: "Crowds on Dec. 26 were just fantastic...
...million-plus profit in 1956, the state got $6,600,000 in taxes and $2,100,000 in after-tax profits. Another $2,100,000 was carved up among the workers in profit sharing, $3,100,000 went into reserves, and $300,000 was held as cash carry-forward. Dreyfus, the biggest man in the biggest French manufacturing company, got only a civil servant's salary: about...
...Nick's problem was no different from that of other harried mayors of big cities in the U.S.: how to raise cash for increased municipal services and capital improvements when more and more of the people who work in the city-and demand the improvements-live in and spend their dollars in the suburbs. Early in his term Big Nick set up committees to study Denver's needs and to find ways and means of raising the money for an improvement program. The mayor's own suggestion: a city income tax. To the folks in metropolitan Denver...
...editorial director of Newsweek, Teacher Barrett got a $70,000 initial grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation for a program to improve coverage of science. Barrett's program, announced last week: a series of fellowships that will give selected newsmen one free year at Columbia (plus $550 cash monthly) to broaden their knowledge and sharpen their reporting of the subject. Limited at first to four or five newsmen a year, the program will be expanded, if successful, to provide ten fellowships annually...