Word: cash
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...slip away to fire again. Castro kept on the move constantly, toughening his men by day-long forced marches and showing them every strategic rock, gully and tall tree. He won the good will of mountain peasants by spending hours in conversation with them, paying them in cold Cuban cash for food and help. He kept discipline taut, collected recruits a few at a time. By the time last week's campaign began, he had close to 400 seasoned men, most of them equipped with modern weapons. And though evacuated peasants jammed hospitals and army barracks in towns surrounding...
...University's attitude towards moral excellence was purely punitive, its attitude towards physical virtue was the reverse. Rumplestiltskin found that while the University encouraged athletics for all, it encouraged the athletic endeavors of the naturally proficient with especial fervor. The most excellent athletes were given rewards of cash and kudos, and put into the entertainment business on weekends. And yet, strangely, the University did not seem to believe that excellence was the only standard, for it also required the physically incompetent to perform alarming feats during their first year of residence. It seemed to be a case of "everybody...
Basic Bestsellers. The cash came early: Fats is only 29. Eleven years ago he was plunking out "back-beat," barrelhouse piano while he sold "snowballs" (shaved ice and flavoring) from a New Orleans streetside stand. By 1949, he played "rhythm and blues"-the record trade's postwar tag for Negro pop music with the beat, but not the brass, of Dixieland. His record, The Fat Man (Imperial), hit for an 800,000-copy sale. In 1955 rhythm and blues got transformed into rock 'n' roll and began to boom; so did Fats...
There were many reasons for the successful sale. IBM's revenues have zoomed 400% in the past ten years, accelerating faster than the sales of its top competitors, Burroughs Corp. and National Cash Register Co. Sales and rentals for the first quarter of 1957 hit $215.7 million v. $155.5 million in January-March of 1956. Wall Street brokers expect IBM's gross income to jump 25% a year for the next five years, as U.S. industry steps up automation, notably in the office, where clerical workers are becoming scarce and more costly...
...Business Machines and waxmaker S. C. Johnson & Son before taking over Underwood's presidency in 1955 with the job of reorganizing the company from top to bottom. When the company continued to lose money and Underwood's board of directors turned down a proposed merger with National Cash Register Co., President Farwell had no choice but to resign. Replacing him is another Yaleman ('33), Vice President for Finance Frank E. Beane, 44, who will take over as Underwood's chairman (previously vacant) and chief executive officer...