Word: cash
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tale, a sort of Miami Beach Rififi, Florida Insurance Millionaire John D. MacArthur, 68, agreed to pay $25,000 as ransom for the $140,000 DeLong ruby, stolen last October in the great jewel robbery at Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History. MacArthur packed the cash in a bundle of $100 and $50 bills for Freelance Writer Francis P. Antel to deliver to the usurers who had held the 100.32-carat ruby as collateral on a loan. He then drove out to a phone booth near Palm Beach and found the stone perched like a pebble...
...sprawling capital, reverberate to the clacking of hammers. A large government housing development is going up, and work is in progress on a Parliament building and a jet airport. Even more ambitious is a four-year national development program, which Kaunda hopes will give Zambia a solid base of cash crops and start a consumer-goods industry...
...murdered rookie patrolman. That started what is now a 453-member Detroit Hundred Club, with annual dues of $150 and a treasury of more than $300,000. So far, the club has given 77 widows and their children $321,000 for everything from unpaid mortgages to scholarships and cash for unpaid bills. It covers Michigan state troopers as well as policemen and firemen in Detroit and 50 nearby communities...
...least get the most. The Department of Agriculture estimates that one-third of its $3 billion-a-year expenditures for farm price supports and related programs goes to fewer than 100,000 larger farms. One suggested remedy would be to lower price supports for commodities and augment them with cash payments that would decrease in proportion to the volume of the commodity produced by any one farmer...
...Inspired not by international understanding but by cold cash at the box office. Stringing a film with talent from three different national markets−the U.S., France, Sweden−is like fishing with three hooks instead...