Word: cash
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...just $5,500 from the Soviets - and may face the death penalty. For nearly four years of risky spy projects, a State Department employee (and FBI informant) was paid a mere $3,440 by the Czechs. Both cases were as tawdry in detail as they were paltry in cash value...
...inevitable baseballisms pray bollu, storiku and hitto. Franglais permits a Frenchman to do le planning et research on le manpowerisation of a complexe industrielle before taking off for le weekend in le country. German now is splattered with such terms as discount house, shopping center, ready to wear and cash and carry. And the latest expression in Frankfurt ad agencies is Ziehn wir's am Flaggenmast hoch und sehn wir wer gruesst -Let's run it up the flagpole and see if anyone salutes...
...Greta Starks was 24 when she acquired a married admirer of 55 who became virtually her sole means of support. For five years, Greta's great and good friend in Detroit showered her with furs, furniture, a new car, a weekly allowance and cash enough to buy a house. Figuring that it was all a tax-free gift, Greta filed no income tax returns through 1958. The ever-vigilant Internal Revenue Service recently totted up Greta's take at $64,978.41, called it taxable income "for services rendered," and ordered her to pay $26,069.96. Happily...
...bearing down on stage, podium and recording studio. "Now, at least, I am responsible for my own mistakes," he says. "It's better than all those years when I was going from Lassie to Debbie Reynolds." Of course, between the dogs and Debbies he managed to earn enough cash to give him the new freedom to fail...
...Dark. The great imponderable is how much the Viet Nam war will affect federal spending. Partly because of an unestimated rise of more than $2 bil lion in tax receipts, partly because of a slight and temporary drop in military spending, the Government ended its fiscal year with a cash deficit estimated by the Treasury last week at only $1.1 billion-sharply below the $6.9 billion deficit anticipated last January...